Like her best-selling Homecoming which I loved, Gyasi mixes autobiography with fiction to tell the story about a Ghanian family in Alabama. The narrator is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford University, She seeks answers to her brother's death from drugs both in her science and the evangelical religion of her youth. It's a portrait of a Ghanaian immigrant family ravaged by poverty, addiction and grief. I did not like it as much as her first novel, Homecoming but am glad I read it.
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