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A review by michkeenah
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
3.0
i thought it started off really well and rather elusively which drew me in very quickly. i enjoyed Gifty’s ongoing conflict with science and religion and i enjoyed how it essentially shaped her worldview and the book in itself
having said that, i did find the book rather underwhelming — particularly towards the end where it started becoming very disjointed. the book starts off with long, continuous prose and suddenly changes into really weird short and snappy chapters with hard-to-keep-up with timelines.
i also thought that Gifty, as the protagonist and narrator of this story, was rather 1-dimensional. beyond science, religion and familial trauma, who was she? maybe that was the point. but i wish there was more character development, i wish nana and her parents (particularly her dad bc he just vanished for ages and then we were re-introduced to him for like 5 seconds) were written with more depth.
having said that, i did find the book rather underwhelming — particularly towards the end where it started becoming very disjointed. the book starts off with long, continuous prose and suddenly changes into really weird short and snappy chapters with hard-to-keep-up with timelines.
i also thought that Gifty, as the protagonist and narrator of this story, was rather 1-dimensional. beyond science, religion and familial trauma, who was she? maybe that was the point. but i wish there was more character development, i wish nana and her parents (particularly her dad bc he just vanished for ages and then we were re-introduced to him for like 5 seconds) were written with more depth.