![]() ![]() Transcendent Kingdom, in a way, was completely different than Yaa Gyasi’s debut novel Homegoing. I grew up only with my part, my little throbbing stone of self-hate that I carried around with me to church, to school, to all those places in my life that worked, it seems to me then, to affirm the idea that I was irreparably, fatally, wrong.” “What I’m saying is I didn’t grow up with a language for, a way to explain, to parse out, my self-loathing. ![]() Transcendent Kingdom is a searing 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. But when her mother comes to stay, Gifty soon learns that the roots of their tangled traumas reach farther than she ever thought. 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. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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