Transcendent Kingdom: A Novel

from Smits

A powerful story about a strong child who turns into a strong woman trying to save her family. She loses a brother to drug overdose that she was so very close to. She cares for a mother dealing with depression who won't leave her bed. Meanwhile Gifty becomes a brilliant scientist. Threaded throug...

from gypsysmom

I listened to Ms Gyasi's first book, Homegoing, and it was such a great experience I didn't hesitate to get the audiobook download for this, her second book. I wasn't quite as impressed by this book as by Homegoing but it was still an engaging listen. Homegoing is a hard act to follow. Gifty is ...

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I'm always in awe of authors who write a super easy readable book with a great plot and plenty of substance. Gifty is a girl who experiences a lot of loss in her life. Religion is a touchstone for her even when she doesn't go to church. She believes in science and God. That's the substance of the...

from steve02476

Liked this story about a girl born in Ghana who grew up in a troubled religious family in Alabama and becomes a neuroscientist. Calmly moving, but the short, lyrical chapters made for easy reading.

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3.5 A much slower, understated book than her first. Told in the first person it is also more personal, centering on one family that had come to Alabama from Ghana. Gifty is our narrator and she is now grown, working in Stanford's labs. It goes back and forth from a time when her family was comple...