Transcendent Kingdom

A novel

De: Yaa Gyasi

Narrado por: Bahni Turpin

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE

Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.

Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive.

Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief—a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.

Excellent book

This was an excellent book! I highly recommend it to everyone. Simply beautiful and meaningful!

Story that keeps you reading

Love the book and felt that a lot of us with immigrant parents can relate. Beautiful story

Loved this book! Performance outstanding

I wonder how this book would have been had I been the reader. As I have found from listening to enough books on Audible, the narration can make or break book impact and even meaning. This reader was absolutely the best I have heard. She made these personalities come alive. Bravo. Applause!

Devastating beautifully written book

Loved this book. It’s is beautifully written story and about family, loss, addiction, religion, being and immigrant. I enjoyed the narrator as well. I highly recommend it.

Great Bpok

loved this books, I'm surprised I didn't listen to it one sitting. The family dynamics felt so real.

Biographical, not scientific

Expecting a discussion of genetics and biochemical aspects of addiction, I was instead immersed in a biographical confession of personal loss. It was well written and well performed, but not what I anticipated.

Very good!

The story was heartbreaking but well worth listening to. I loved the reader too. The different voices she used for each character was great.

Excellent

Yaa Gyasi did it again. I didn’t know what to expect from another book after being moved so much by Homegoing. Transcendent Kingdom did not disappoint. The characters are profoundly vulnerable. The narrative is deliberate and engaging. If you are looking for a faster paced drama, this book isn’t for you. This book is for those readers who mask their brokenness yet long to feel seen as whole people, including their darkness. Bahni Turpin performs the book well. I was sad to finish it. I will miss Gifty (sp?) and her people.

Beautiful

Beautiful writing and story telling . Honest and haunting . Highlights many untold aspects of the immigrant experience - I loved every moment

A Multi-sensory Experience

Perfect for the reader who wants to feel something while reading. The story is compelling and the characters are so well developed that it is impossible for a reader not to be "in their shoes."

This phenomenon is aided by the narration, which is skillfully done in a manner that captures many ages, accents and genders to facilitate the reader's conjuring of the characters.