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Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi

Start date: July 15, 2021

Finish date: August 1, 2021

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Oct 28, 2020 Linda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020, audio, cultural, own, fiction, bianca-s-group

Marvelous, introspective look at a family that starts as four then becomes two - a mother and her daughter. The young girl is very involved with her religion and faith but what happens to that as life happens and she ages. A lot to think about. I think I want to read it again already.

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Jan 18, 2021 Happyreader rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

A painful and intimate mother/daughter journey filled with shame, isolation and despair and thankfully arriving at acceptance, connection and redemption. Even the Ensure-addicted mouse with the limp finds relief.

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Nov 25, 2020 Holly rated it really liked it

This was a tough read for me, having a mom with depression who is presently undergoing dementia and other health challenges that are taking her further away from me. Yet there were moments in this book that were so perfect, where Gyasi's writing was so spot-on truthful that I had to pause and take a deep breath and sit with that I had just read. I could not bear to turn the page, even though I wanted to know what was going to happen. These moments shimmer with a bone-deep revelation of what we a ...more

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Oct 06, 2020 Tensy (bookdoyen) rated it it was ok

Shelves: fiction, audiobook

This story of addiction and depression and its impact on a young member of an immigrant family from Ghana just had too many threads and too many flips back and forth in time to fully engage me.

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