![]() ![]() Throughout this compelling and poignant story, I had to remind myself that it is not the official memoir of Yaa Gyasi. Writing: Even though this story is clearly categorized as fiction, it definitely reads like a memoir. This is a story of immigration, faith, science, questions, and family devotion. ![]() At the same time Gifty studies the hard sciences, she also questions her faith and the religious experiences of her childhood. ![]() The beginning of the story finds the daughter, Gifty, at Standford Medical School studying depression and addiction as she desperately hopes to find answers that will help others in similar situations. Dad returns to Ghana and Mom becomes severely depressed. Their son, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died from a heroin overdose as a result of being addicted to pain meds after an accident. While Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is the multi-generational big picture of a family over three hundred years, Transcendent Kingdom is a microscopic look at one Ghanaian family in Alabama. *This post contains Amazon affiliate links. ![]() Genre/Categories: Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction, Faith and Science, Family Drama, Drug Addiction, Ghana-American, Immigrant Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi reads like a compelling, poignant, and thought-provoking memoir. ![]()
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