![]() Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Transcendent Kingdom is such an impactful story and one of the best books I’ve read this year. Both are important reads (and I see why the celebrity book clubs picked these two stories). And both go so much in depth about the complexity of what it’s like to move to another country. ![]() ![]() While Transcendent Kingdom is about Ghanaian immigrants and The Last Story of Mina Lee follows a Korean immigrant, they both show how the American Dream is really more of a myth. ![]() So it’s interesting, I read this novel immediately after I finished The Last Story of Mina Leeand despite the differences in the stories and writing style, they share a common theme of looking at the complicated immigrant experience. ![]()
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