Transcendent Kingdom

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Yaa Gyasi

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZEYaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.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. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief—a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.

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Author

Yaa Gyasi

Pages

288

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published Date

2020-09-01

ISBN

052565819X 9780525658191

Ratings

Google: 4

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"Gifty’s life is built around the loss of her father, brother and - in large part - mother. Issues of abandonment, addiction and depression make an indelible impression on Gifty as she works to establish her own life through the lens of her religious upbringing as she turns to science to understand the why of life. 👍🏻👍🏻"

Jackie Davidson

"I just finished this today and I didn’t think it was going to make me cry but I finished it and then came the tears! An introspective look at religion, depression and addiction and race in a small Alabama town. Pacing is slow, but it’s thought provoking and cleverly well written! "

Samantha Leighanne

"SPIRITUAL and DEEPLY PROFOUND!"

Bobby Hannafey

"After Homegoing, this just didn’t measure up to the excellence of her first novel."

Chelsia Rice

"Totally unrelated but right now I’m reading Kiss of Deception by Mary E Pearson-totally recommend!"

"This book is deep and makes you think hard about mother/daughter relationships. "

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Lorrea Duffin

"Overall I thought it was a good book but there was one thing I didn’t like. Personally for me, it was easy to get lost with the story because the author doesn’t make clear transitions between the protagonist’s past, present, and thoughts/feelings. It felt like it kept jumping all over the place. But the messages that the author wanted to convey were beautiful. I didn’t expect to cry at the end. 6/10 recommend "

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Amara’s Lit

"4.5"

Khawlah Usmani

"Yaa Gyasi is a gifted storyteller. While I enjoyed this book and Homegoing for mostly different reasons, one similar element is her vision for a great storyline and the layers that accompany it."