After a minor injury, a doctor prescribes Oxycontin and his addiction begins. He is not seen as a person but as a phenom in sports. The absence of his father and the discrimination he faces in his Alabama neighborhood affect him greatly. Nana had been a gifted athlete, first in soccer and then basketball. Although Chin-chin Man, Gifty’s father, wanted to leave Ghana, he eventually deserts his family and returns to his homeland to start life anew. The writing flows beautifully as Gifty describes Ma’s experiences working as a caretaker and her father’s work as a school custodian. Gifty tells the story of her parents’ immigration to the United States from Ghana and her brother’s and her own life stories as flashbacks while conveying the present story of her life at Stanford. Her mother is living in her small California apartment, and the depression has been a huge issue in her mother’s life since Nana, her son died. She is working with laboratory mice, but she has formulated her research goals to understand her mother’s depression and her brother’s death due to a heroin overdose. With reward-seeking, like in depression, where there is too much restraint in seeking pleasure, or drug addiction, where “Could optogenetics be used to identify the neural mechanisms involved in psychiatric illnesses where there are issues Her research question, as stated in the novel, is: student at Stanford University School of Medicine. Gifty, the first-person narrator, is a Ph.D.
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