A review by cindy_f
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

4.0

Thoughtful and brilliantly written. I thought this book was very insightful as it was written through the perspective of a young woman who uses science to understand some very personal events that occurred in her life. She is a first generation Ghanaian working on her PhD in Neuroscience at Stanford. Her mother suffers from depression and her brother had an opioid addiction. The story goes back and forth a bit from her present time and her younger days. It is written with some humor, which I appreciated because it was used appropriately. I was hoping for a more profound ending but overall I loved the book.