So I was a person who who just found herself in literature quite young. And in these books I could start to kind of encounter people, understand people and have that stability that I was seeking throughout all of these moves. And the kind of one constant was the fact that I could go to the library with my library card and check out books.

I was born in Ghana, but then we lived in Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee, Alabama. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. My family moved around a lot when I was a child. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on Ox圜ontin. Transcendent Kingdomis an unsettling novel that asks a central question about the uncertainties of a mother-daughter relationship, are we going to be okay It both provokes and reveals the limits inherent within the asking. I loved reading more than just about anything else in my life at that point. And it's something I found that even as I've grown distant from that, I can't completely disentangle who I am from this early period. And yet I think when you spend that much time in a place - and so it really was such a huge part of my life. I was raised in the church, as they say, but I haven't continued to attend, and have kind of lost a lot of that early grounding that I had as I grew older and started to feel kind of politically differently than some of the teachings that I learned when I was younger. T ranscendent Kingdom is a 2020 novel narrated by Gifty, a Ghanaian American neuroscience graduate student at Stanford University. We meet the protagonist, Gifty, while she pursues. You know, similarly to Gifty, I grew up Pentecostal. A much-anticipated second novel from the award-winning author of Homegoing, Transcendent Kingdom charts the experiences of a Ghanaian immigrant family in. Jenna Bush Hager's September book club pick, 'Transcendent Kingdom' by Yaa Gyasi, is about a Ghanian family after they immigrate to Alabama. Book Reviews 'Homegoing' Is A Sprawling Epic, Brimming With Compassion

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