The two have a complicated relationship marked by grief and loss, which the book explores, along with Gifty’s equally complicated relationship with her faith (she was raised in an Evangelical church), addiction, and abandonment. program when her mother comes to stay with her. The book follows Gifty, a neuroscience student who is in the final stretch of her Ph.D. Those ruminations led to this series, in which I actually ask the authors of recently released novels, biographies, and nonfiction just that: what books they read while they wrote, and what books they feel their book is in conversation with.įor the second installment, I spoke with Yaa Gyasi, whose novel Transcendent Kingdom debuted this summer, and instantly became one of my favorite things I’ve read this year. I’ve long imagined, for instance, that Alice Walker thought fondly of Zora Neale Hurston while writing The Color Purple, or Nicole Dennis-Benn called on Toni Morrison while crafting Here Comes the Sun.
When I read a book, I always find myself wondering what books the author was reading while they wrote.
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