![]() ![]() She grew up in Alabama as the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants. But she chose her profession, she tells us, less because she thinks the work is important and helpful, and more because it was the hardest thing she could think of doing, and she craves hard work. Gifty is interested in questions of the soul because she is a grad student studying neuroscience, and thinking about what makes human beings work is part of her job. And Gifty, the narrator of Transcendent Kingdom, is trying to work out exactly what our souls might be. ![]() We think of ourselves as beings who are more than our meat and electricity we think of ourselves as beings with souls. “Homo sapiens,” Yaa Gyasi writes at the opening of her achingly lovely new novel Transcendent Kingdom, “is the only animal who believed he had transcended his Kingdom,” meaning the biological classification of the animal kingdom. ![]()
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