17 January 2021
Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa 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 fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford 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 a knee 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.
| Title | : | Transcendent Kingdom |
| Edition Language | : | English |
| ISBN | : | 9780525658184 |
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Absolutely transcendent. A gorgeously woven narrative about a woman trying to survive the grief of a brother lost to addiction and a mother trapped in depression while pursuing her ambitions. Not a wo...
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I read this book in an intense, insomniac lull and it was quite the transcendent experience. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply ruminative, unrelentingly searching, and immensely moving story about a yo...
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A really sad and thoughtful piece that questions religion and science in the face of familial loss and addiction. Though the book didn’t quite hit me as hard personally, I still think there’s a lo...
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This book just ruined me! I barely breathe, breaking out in sobs. I have to pull myself together! Come on, stop crying. Here comes hiccups! I have to breath in and breath out! Wow! This is one of thos...
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[3.5 stars] “What’s the point of all of this?” is a question that separates humans from other animals. Our curiosity around this issue has sparked everything from science to literature to phil...
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4.5 stars”Homo sapiens is the only animal who believed he had transcended his Kingdom.” Gifty’s parents immigrated to Alabama from Ghana before she was born, and Gifty, now in her late 20s, is a...
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I haven't read the first book by the author but once I started reading this latest release, I got completely hooked!This is the story of Gifty who now works as a PHD candidate doing research on mice r...
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I feel uncharitable criticizing a book so personal to the author and so relatable to me (I wish I didn't live through some, a lot of this), but I think this novel would have been better written a coup...
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YAA GYASI DID IT AGAIN!!!! PREPARED TO BE RUINED! I finished reading this book four days ago and my heart is still aching. I still cannot stop thinking about the characters, about the writing about t...
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According to the book jacket, Transcendent Kingdom is a "deeply moving portrait," a "profound story about race," "depression and addiction." And that's what I wanted. I wanted an interesting story tha...