The release date for the English version of 'Transcendent Kingdom' by
Yaa Gyasi is Sep 2020. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Yaa Gyasi's magnificent sequel to her critically praised national best-seller Homegoing is a highly textured, visceral, dramatic book about an Alabama-based Ghanaian family.
At Stanford School of Medicine, Gifty is a fifth-year neuroscience candidate who focuses on the brain circuits underlying addiction and depression as well as mice's reward-seeking behaviour. After suffering a knee injury that led to an OxyContin addiction, her brother Nana, a skilled athlete in high school, overdosed on heroin. Her mother, a suicidal person, resides in her bed. Gifty is committed to learning the scientific explanation for the misery she observes in the world.
She struggles with the evangelical church she was reared in, whose promise of redemption is still as alluring as it is elusive, and finds herself yearning for her childhood faith even as she turns to the hard sciences to solve the riddle of her family's loss. Transcendent Kingdom is a story about faith, science, religion, and love that paints a profoundly compelling picture of a family of Ghanaian immigrants devastated by addiction, sadness, and bereavement. Meticulously crafted and intensely poignant, this is an incredibly potent sequel to Gyasi's outstanding first book.