Transcendent Kingdom is by Yaa Gyasi. A masterful work of multi cultural realistic fiction about an immigrant family struggling with life in America. Gifty's family immigrated from Ghana before she was born. Her father left the family and returned to Ghana. Gifty, her mother, and her brother Nana are struggling to make ends meet in Alabama. Her mother makes the family attend a Pentecostal church, and Gifty and Nana struggle with what they hear from the pulpit and what they experience outside church. When Nana dies of a heroin overdose and Gifty's mother begins to struggle with depression, Gifty, now a PhD candidate at Stanford, tries to reconcile the two halves of her life.
Ratings: 11th grade - 8 out of 10 - P (profanity) - AC (mature thematic content).
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