Transcendent Kingdom

Author: Yaa Gyasi

For each of the books on the list, I am not saying much. I'll leave it to you to Google to find out more. There were so many books that could have been on the list, but we made a choice of a few and gave them to select friends and family. I was hoping I could figure out a way to make them all digitally available for all friends and family, but that may be something we have to figure out for next year ;-).

From The NYT by Nell Freudenberger:

“Transcendent Kingdom” trades the blazing brilliance of “Homegoing” for another type of glory, more granular and difficult to name. In place of the lyricism of her first novel, Gyasi gives us sentences like this one, where the grace comes from rhythm rather than melody: “I loved Alabama in the evenings, when everything got still and lazy and beautiful, when the sky felt full, fat with bugs.” The transcendent kingdom of this Ghanaian, Southern, American novel is finally not a Christian or a scientific one, but the one that two women create by surviving a hostile environment, and maintaining their primal connection to each other.

Where to buy

• Amazon