It took me many years to realize that it’s hard t…
Transcendent Kingdom
by
Yaa Gyasi
Aug. 17, 2021 - Aug. 18, 2021
(fiction, frustrating)
Gyasi, Y. (2020). Transcendent Kingdom. Alfred A. Knopf.
p.244
it’s hard to live in this world
p.236
sometimes I talk to Nana when I can’t sleep
Nana had been dead four years. It had been three …
p.180
we’d thought our routine would save us, save him
We didn’t know to worry, so when the police knock…
p.173
little interest in the lives of black people
When I was a child, no one ever said the words “i…
p.162
directly into the eye of the tornado
Most of the time in my work, I begin with the ans…