The first-person narration deftly hops through time, the details of Gifty’s past informing our understanding of her present: Her family’s immigration from Ghana the abandonment of her father, who returns to Ghana to start anew and never looks back the racism of the deep South, both casual and cutting – a boy in kindergarten telling Gifty she’s not a princess because “Black people can’t be princesses,” and the old man with Parkinson’s her mom cared for calling her the n-word every day the journal entries young Gifty began with the words “Dear God,” praying sometimes for her brother’s death to be freed from his addiction. Shortlisted for the Womens Prize for Fiction 2021. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasis phenomenal debut. A much-anticipated second novel from the award-winning author of Homegoing, Transcendent Kingdom charts the experiences of a Ghanaian immigrant family in modern America. 'Decolonize your bookshelf: Little libraries, book boxes promote conversation about race in America 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. The most recent wave brings her from Alabama to stay with Gifty, bedridden in the catatonic thrall of a major depressive episode as Gifty searches for answers in mice.ĥ books not to miss: Yaa Gyasi's 'Transcendent Kingdom,' Emma Cline's 'Daddy' The loss traumatized Gifty’s mother, whose debilitating depression comes in waves. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasis phenomenal debut. Once an electric athlete, he was reduced by drugs to animal need, chasing highs for three years until he was found dead of an overdose. 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. That brother – Gifty’s older brother, Nana – is long dead, a young casualty of opioid addiction following a basketball injury and a careless Oxycontin prescription.

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