'A piercing story of faith, science and the opioid crisis. not a word or idea out of place' Roxane Gay Transcendent Kingdom is a searing story story of love, loss and redemption, and the myriad ways we try to rebuild our lives from the rubble of our collective pasts. Tracing her family's story through continents and generations will take her deep into the dark heart of modern America. Transcendent Kingdom is the story of one specific girl in one specific family: it is interior, psychological, and deeply focused on sifting through the layers of Gifty’s mind as she studies and prays and experiments to try to find her way to what lies at the core of human beings.

But when her mother comes to stay, Gifty soon learns that the roots of their tangled traumas reach farther than she ever thought. Take a guided tour of Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York City, and many other cities. With her sophomore novel, Gyasi is narrowing her scope. Years later, desperate to understand the opioid addiction that destroyed her brother's life, she turns to science for answers.

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. She's 28, and six years into her PhD in neuroscience at. Gifty is the star of Yaa Gyasi's new novel Transcendent Kingdom. **From the bestselling author of Homegoing**Īs 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. Her mother, from Ghana, lives with her, but mostly under the covers. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi € 17.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days.

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