book review: The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. Jamesįollow pace, amore, libri on WordPress.Readers get to know the inscrutable 20-something Gifty in her Stanford lab as she operates on mice and makes small. book review: Either/Or by Elif Batuman | BookBrowse Transcendent Kingdom is written with uncommon patience, and often disarms.This is one of the most technically impressive and emotionally resonant books I’ve read in ages it deserves all the hype and more. Again, it’s not a plot-heavy book, but it’s effectively character-driven, and Gifty, a neuroscientist coping with the death of her brother and her difficult relationship with her mother, is a brilliant, vibrant, believable protagonist.

But the most impressive thing Gyasi does is perform her thorough thematic excavation without sacrificing the narrative. It’s a difficult book to review, though, because I’ve probably just made it sound like it’s a novel full of ideas and nothing else. Often when authors try to balance this many disparate threads, some get lost in the shuffle it’s challenging to navigate each topic with the weight and respect they deserve, but that’s exactly what Gyasi does here–everything coheres seamlessly. Gyasi tackles grief, siblinghood, loneliness, immigration, racism, science, religion, and opioid addiction, and it feels almost too ambitious for a book under 300 pages.

It is an introspective novel, exploring the thoughts and musings of the protagonist, Gifty. Transcendent Kingdom does both in abundance. The thing about Transcendent Kingdom is that it has no business working as well as it does. Book Review: Transcendent Kingdom When it comes to art and literature, my favourite pieces always appeal to the head as well as the heart. But once I started reading I couldn’t stop I found Gyasi’s prose so inviting and mesmerising and before I knew it I’d read the whole thing and it had utterly wrecked me. I read it in under 24 hours, though it’s almost difficult to explain why: it’s not (ostensibly) a page-turner and there’s really no plot to speak of.

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