S01 E03: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

This week the Real Friends are getting into Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi’s stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing. It’s a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.
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Transcendent Kingdom in One Sentence

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ERKS: You can’t intellectualize your trauma, but Gifty will try.

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COURTNEY: Beautiful writing of a mostly sad story about navigating through a life touched by addiction, depression and heavy handed religion that feels all too real because it is too real –but still has a happy ending!

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MARY PAIGE: A book that shows the parallels between Gifty’s neuroscience career and her religious upbringing as well as the loss of her loved ones.
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The answer to "whatcha reading next?"

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Coming up next, we’ve got…

  • 4/27: Ready Player 1 by Ernest Cline
  • 5/11: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
  • 5/25: Broken (in the Best Possible Way)

 

Read along with us – it’s a book club!

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