![]() ![]() However, she turned away from religion for a reason and Gyasi’s own experience and perspective comes into play when she makes a point to emphasize the effects of Gifty’s upbringing in a predominantly white Alabama church. Young Gifty wanted salvation with a special kind of innocent desperation that only a child can have. Young Gifty was fascinated by prayer and purity. Meanwhile, she struggles with her former faith, battling with the ghost of her childhood self immortalized in diary entries addressed to God. She’s immersed in her career, practically existing as a phantom when she’s not floating from lab to sparsely decorated apartment back to lab. ![]() Gifty, a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at Stanford, studies reward-seeking behavior in mice and searches for the root causes of mental illnesses such as addiction and depression. ![]()
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