It’s a story of science, race, religion, immigration, mental illness and heart-wrenching grief. Where Homegoing was a sweeping epic, Transcendent Kingdom homes in on one family’s saga with effortless, poignant prose. Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi’s stunning follow-up to her award-winning novel Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered story about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.
Gyasi’s first book, Homegoing, a novel about the effects of slavery on one Ghanaian family over three centuries, won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the American Book Award and other honors. But what if the answer to this question is ‘I don’t know,’ or worse still, ‘Nothing’?” When the answer to this question is ‘Because God deemed it so’ we might feel comforted. “Our curiosity around this issue has sparked everything from science to literature to philosophy to religion. “‘What’s the point of all this?’ is a question that separates humans from other animals,” Gyasi writes. Early on in Transcendent Kingdom, the narrators brother, Nana, is racially abused from the sidelines during a football match. Meanwhile, she grapples with the evangelical faith of her youth - and the salvation it once promised her. Gifty wants to better understand the science of suffering. And she does it because her mother, a Ghanaian immigrant, is depressed and living in her bed.
She does it because her brother, Nana, was a gifted basketball player before an injury led to an Ox圜ontin addiction and eventually to a deadly heroin overdose. candidate named Gifty studies reward-seeking behavior in mice and the mysterious synapses that can lead to addiction or depression. In Yaa Gyasi’s new novel, Transcendent Kingdom, a Stanford Ph.D.
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