Gyasi has captured nearly perfectly many of the thoughts I have had about my relationship with Christianity and God.
But I am someone who grew up with Christianity as a core tenet of my entire personhood who then stepped away from it all.
I cannot even begin to imagine what life is like for a person at the intersection of all of those things. Each memory reveals layer after layer of who Gifty is and how she relates to her family and America.Īs for how I relate to Gifty, I am not an immigrant, I am not a woman, and I am not a person of color. Throughout the novel, Gifty bounces from memory to memory as she completes her doctoral work at Stanford in neurology and takes care of her mother. Gifty has a brother: an athlete who struggles with addiction. Gifty is the daughter of two Ghanaian immigrants: her mother, a depressive woman who turns to American Evangelical Christianity for a respite from life, and her father, a man who abandons his family to return to his home in Ghana.
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