RaveThe Austin ChronicleGyasi, who herself was born in Ghana and grew up in Alabama, examines the dream and the struggle with total equanimity. She has written about ambivalence and estrangement and yearning with such weight, only an unfaltering voice like Gifty’s can make it bearable. Transcendent Kingdom honors the stranger, and in doing so, we recognize ourselves.
Natasha Trethewey
RaveThe Austin ChronicleTo survive trauma one must be able to tell a story about it,\' writes Natasha Trethewey in her memoir Memorial Drive . The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet uses metaphor to investigate the forensics of unfathomable loss: her mother\'s death at the hands of her stepfather ... Trethewey sifts through the fragments of her story with the rigor of an investigative journalist and the resilience of a survivor. Imagery is presented alongside evidence in the analysis of her trauma and grief ... Memorial Drive is a searching investigation of those wounds – and a return to the crime scene to reclaim herself.
