When the book opens, Gifty asks for her mother to be sent to her in the West coast where she lives so that she can care for her while she is depressed. She continues to struggle with major depression. Gifty’s mother, a devout Pentecostal christian raised both children as churchgoers, and never fully recovered from her son’s death.
Her brother, Nana, was a gifted athlete, first playing soccer in his childhood, and then basketball in his teens, until a game injury led to a brush with Oxycontin which eventually spiraled into the opoid addiction that took his life. The story follows Gifty’s life from her childhood in Huntesville, Alabama to the present, alternating between several timelines. In this book, Gifty is a PhD student whose research focuses on desire and restraint and how both factors play into addiction and depression. Her debut, Homegoing was widely read and loved.
Transcendent Kingdom is Yaa Gyasi’s long-awaited sophomore novel.
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