Gyasi’s second novel possesses many similarities to her debut novel, Homegoing, despite being a stand-alone text— meaning the two texts are independent of each other. Both texts feature: Ghanaian immigration (albeit through different lenses, namely, voluntary migration vs. involuntary migration), titles that serve as major themes, and motifs that tie into each other. Gifty’s mother, […]

I’ve been listening to Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast Revisionist History for a few years now, but never read any of his works before. Full disclosure, I’m still paying off student loans so I checked out my local library to see which of his works were available to borrow. Of course there was a months long waiting […]

Upon accepting her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the film Fences in 2017, Viola Davis said the following: “People ask me all the time, ‘What kind of stories do you want to tell, Viola?’ And I say, ‘Exhume those bodies.’ Exhume those stories — the stories of the people who dreamed big and never […]

Surprise, surprise. There’s one dominating voice when it comes to love in books, media, and relationships–men. Of course this is not entirely surprising given the patriarchal system most of us have been living and operating within for most if not all of our lives. In her book all about love, bell hooks writes about how […]

Overview Social mobility is not as attainable as it once was. The decrease in upward mobility, as Reeves argues in his book, is the result of the upper middle class’s direct actions that rig the socio-economic playing field in their favor. Defining he upper-middle class as those individuals who form the top quintile of the […]

*No copyright infringement intended for any images used in this post* I was baptized and raised Catholic. As a result, the number three has a hold on me. It represents the Holy Trinity. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. They are not three separate gods, but one true God with […]