Transcendent Kingdom

British-born Ghanaian author Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom is an eloquent story of Ghanaian American talents, sciency Gifty and her attempts to understand the phenomena of grief and God using the tools and frameworks of a neuroscientist. For, as you often find in first novels, Gifty engages with her family’s problems of mental illness and with her own quest for a purpose in life that transfigures personal affliction into public knowledge. Through this book Gyasi effectively tells a story of hope, identity and the contradictions of human being.