This felt like such a different kind of story that I wanted to tell, much quieter. I don't think I was trying to take on another, many-century project again. YAA GYASI: From the beginning, this seemed very clearly to be a story that was going to be a lot more intimate. She talked to Shondaland from her apartment in Brooklyn, where she has been sheltering from the coronavirus.ĬAROLYN KELLOGG: Congratulations on the new novel! Homegoing was this huge epic, and Transcendent Kingdom is much more internal. Gyasi is all right-brain creative, and her family, while Pentecostal, didn’t face the same travails as the family in her novel. Like Gifty, Gyasi is from Ghana and grew up in Huntsville, but their paths split. Woven into that is the question of faith - she was raised Pentecostal - and the tension between science and belief. But she’s haunted by her family - her father, gone back to Ghana, and her brother, a star athlete turned addict. She was a poor girl from Huntsville, Alabama who made it to Harvard then Stanford, propelled by her intelligence and will.
All along, Gifty is, circuitously, relating the story of her life.
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