'If you want to know why the world is this way, try this book for starters.' - Naomi Alderman, author of The Power You may also be interested in. It's impossible not to admire the ambition and scope of Homegoing.' - The New York Times explores horror without ever losing sight of humanity or hope.' - The Sunday Times on Homegoing 'Remarkable, a devastating account of America. 'The range Gyasi displays in just two books is staggering.' - USA Today 'Gyasi's second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, is a very different book, and, I think, a better one - contemporary, personal, acutely focused on a single family, and intensely felt.' - The New Yorker At once a vivid evocation of the immigrant experience and a sharp delineation of an individual's inner struggle, the novel brilliantly succeeds on both counts.' - Publishers Weekly, starred review 'With deft agility and undeniable artistry, Gyasi's latest is an eloquent examination of resilient survival.' - Booklist I am quite angry this is so good.' - Roxane Gay Historical Context of Transcendent Kingdom In Transcendent Kingdom, Gifty’s brother Nana dies of an accidental heroin overdose, after becoming addicted to opioids prescribed to him for a sports injury. 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. Gyasi was educated at Stanford and the Iowa Writers Workshop, and she released her first novel, Homegoing, to great acclaim in 2016. The splendor and heart and insight and brilliance contained in the pages holds up a light the rest of us can follow.' - Ann Patchett

'I would say that Transcendent Kingdom is a novel for our time (and it is) but it is so much more than that. Transcendent Kingdom is a novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2020 by Alfred A. Yaa Gyasi is one of the most enlightening novelists writing today.' - The Washington Post A double helix of wisdom and rage twists through the quiet lines of this novel.

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