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.
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Transcendent Kingdom is a searing story 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. 'A BOOK OF BLAZING BRILLIANCE' Washington PostĪs 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. **From the bestselling author of Homegoing** 'A piercing story of faith, science and the opioid crisis. not a word or idea out of place' Roxane Gay 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.
**From the bestselling author of Homegoing**Īs 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. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021
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