Tag: Yaa Gyasi
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I searched for blog challenges and came across Shelf Reflection’s book reading prompts. We take a prompt and find a book that fits the prompt. Or the other way around. I have included my post links in the titles of the books I have read and reviewed here in this blog or elsewhere. As you…
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Gifty wrote about this incident on page 19. It seemed Nana threw a tantrum because he was under the influence of drugs. On page 31, Gifty said Nana was 15 years old when their mother discovered some loose Oxycontin pills in his bedroom. Their mom didn’t know how to deal with this discovery. By page…
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Gifty wanted to record happenings in her secret diary, but was afraid that they may secretly read it. She didn’t want them to know she was writing about them. She nicknamed her mon The Black Mamba. She nicknamed Nana as Buzz. Amazon sells this: I may earn a small commission if you buy from this…
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Gifty’s mom and Nana left Ghana to travel to America, because her mom won a lottery pick which gave her the right to permanent residency in America. Gifty’s mom was very proud of Nana and had high hopes for him. She thought Ghana could not offer him room to grow up and become somebody. This…
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Gifty was ten years old when she wrote about Nana throwing terrible tempers, smashing the home’s TV, punching the wall, and using abusive language. Their mom could not help Nana, nor get help for him. Gifty wrote about this in her secret diary. Later, in her narrative, she wrote Nana “died of a heroin overdose…
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Gifty is the nickname of the narrator in Transcendent Kingdom The book title means beyond the range of normal human experience. Gifty’s life with her family, friends and surrounding circles, are full of abnormal experiences. Her mother has retreated into her own world of being infantile; she sleeps or lies down on the bed most…
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Gifty’s dad was called the Chin Chin man because he used to hang around Gifty’s maternal grandma’s food stand. He would spend time persuading the elder woman to gift him a free bag of achomo, which the locals call as chin chin. In Ghana, Nigeria and some parts of Africa, the achomo is nicknamed as…