![]() The study is aimed at identifying which neurons are “firing or are not firing.” Gifty’s life and studies were disrupted with the sudden surprising appearance of her mother who was again sinking into depression. Her PhD study centers around the “neural circuits of reward-seeking behaviour” in mice. The daughter of Ghanaian immigrants, she was introduced to the readers as a precocious 28-year-old young woman currently completing her PhD in Neuroscience at Stanford University. Recently announced as one of the shortlisted novels gunning for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction, Transcendent Kingdom charts the story of Gifty. Four years thence, she made her literary comeback with Transcendent Kingdom. ![]() This also marked the ascent of a new and excitable voice in the world of literature. The world of literature unrolled its proverbial red carpet for Gyasi’s grand entrance. It was widely acclaimed, both by literary pundits and by the general reading public alike, and has earned her several awards and nominations from various literary award-giving bodies. Her first novel, Homegoing, was a breathtaking chronicle of the history of two sisters born in the author’s native Ghana. ![]() In 2016, Ghanaian born writer Yaa Gyasi made a stunning literary debut. ![]()
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