Transcendent Kingdom: A novel Color Purple three months before her death

three months before her death

We hide our simmering discontent—even from ourselves

This book explores issues of self-esteem

But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams

In this remarkable author-illustrator debut that's perfect for fans of Last Stop on Market Street and Extra Yarn as well as for the Thanksgiving season

Transcendent Kingdom: A novel Color Purple three months before her deathYaa Gyasis stunning follow up to her acclaimed national bestseller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a sixth year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle