“If I’ve thought of my mother as callous, and many times I have, then it is important to remind myself what a callus is: the hardened tissue that forms over a wound.” It was a little clue to tuck safely into my pocket -the way I assume other people squirrel away inspirational quotes -and I (again, meanly) had a self-righteous urge to print it out and send it to any well-intentioned relative who had ever told me to suck it up and live-laugh-love myself through any hardship: I’ve always (meanly) prided myself as someone way above things like quotes or vision boards, but a few short chapters into Transcendent Kingdom, author Yaa Gyasi’s sophomore novel, I came across an idea that felt like therapy. Three syllables that melt the heart of a certain type of person while simultaneously turning them into a punchline, whether that‘s fair or not. There’s an unsettling emptiness in certain corners of the self-help world that can best be described in three words: Live, Laugh, Love.
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