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A review by kierscrivener
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
5.0
I don't know if I can put into words how this book spoke to me. Gifty and her questions, her past, her dreams, her inability to speak the sorrow in her mind. Her questions of soul, mind and heart. Her memorization of scripture. The silence around mental health.
This is an extraordinary novel that doesn't try to answer or show a way or solution, but just allows Gifty and the people in her life to exist. In the messiness, brokenness and in the humanness and complexity. It weaves past and present, academic and religious, personal and scientific into one person who holds multitudes.
content warning: drug use, mental health, suicide, racism, abandonment, overdose, gossip
This is an extraordinary novel that doesn't try to answer or show a way or solution, but just allows Gifty and the people in her life to exist. In the messiness, brokenness and in the humanness and complexity. It weaves past and present, academic and religious, personal and scientific into one person who holds multitudes.
content warning: drug use, mental health, suicide, racism, abandonment, overdose, gossip