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Transcendent Kingdom

By: Yaa Gyasi
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
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Brought to you by Penguin.

From the best-selling author of Homegoing comes a searing novel of love and loss, addiction and redemption, straight from the heart of contemporary America.

As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty dreamed of slips away.

Years later, desperate to understand the opioid addiction that destroyed her brother's life, she turns to science for answers. But when her mother comes to stay, Gifty soon learns that the roots of their tangled traumas reach farther than she ever thought. Tracing her family's story through continents and generations will take her deep into the dark heart of modern America.

©2020 Yaa Gyasi (P)2020 Penguin Audio African American Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction United States World Literature Heartfelt Inspiring Tear-jerking Thought-Provoking

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Critic reviews

"I would say that Transcendent Kingdom is a novel for our time (and it is) but it is so much more than that. It is a novel for all times. The splendor and heart and insight and brilliance contained in the pages holds up light the rest of us can follow." (Ann Patchett)

"Absolutely transcendent. A gorgeously woven narrative...not a word or idea out of place. The range. I am quite angry this is so good." (Roxane Gay)

"A stirringly gifted writer." (New York Times)
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A Ghanaian migrant family in Alabama look for redemption in God but the challenges and reality of life make tge narrator reflect on her faith.

A novel about science and faith

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As a Ghanaian Briton with an extremely religious mother, this novel spoke to something deep, deep in me. I loved its brutal honesty. Truly wonderful

A painful, beautiful rendering of diaspora

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Beautifully written and narrated.
A story so pure and very real that touches on so many real issues in such a sensitive yet assertive way.

Just brilliant

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a family tale of loss and identity. really interesting. voice actor did a great job.

fascinating and heart breaking

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This book is about searching for one’s identity after living Ghana for Alabama as well as delving into the pain of loss and search for the root of addiction in a deeply religious family. Gifty’s family move from Ghana to the US, her parents wanting a better life for Gifty and her brother, but as most stories go, the story does not pan out smoothly. I found this book extremely thought-provoking and also quite sad. X

Sad but uplifting too!

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