Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. More Information Here Meet the Author, Yaa Gyasi This story will affect you and change you.īook Club: One topic I would like to address in book club is the degree to which children shoulder the weight of family drama.Ĭontent Considerations: death of a child due to addiction, depression, bullying This thought-provoking book is definitely recommended for fans of Homegoing, for readers who desire to diversify their reading experience, for those who appreciate relevant and thoughtful themes, and for book clubs who crave rich discussion.
I also love how she describes “the knock she feels on her heart” from God.
Addiction: I feel critical of a doctor who would give a teenage boy pain-killer meds with no counseling for parents regarding possible addiction.Transcendent Kingdom is beautifully written, transparent, heartfelt, and honest, and, in my opinion, it falls into the literary fiction genre. Her powerful and gently-written story details grief, regret, the immigration experience, and questions of faith. The story is told using flashbacks from Gifty’s perspective as a medical student. However, I feel that some sections must have been written from personal experience. 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.
0 kommentar(er)
