![]() ![]() Never settling in Alabama, The Chin-chin man eventually returned to Ghana for what was initially supposed to be a short trip, never to return. The family was anchored around Nana's prodigious gifts as an athlete and their mother's fervent religious zeal which Gifty inherited. Gifty was born a few years later, and was an unwanted pregnancy. Gifty's father eventually relocated to America to be with his family but was only able to find unstable work as a janitor. Gifty's mother was forced to take menial jobs, eventually become a caretaker to abusive and racist elderly patients. They had a brilliant son, Nana, and after his birth Gifty's mother, seeking a better life for her child, relocated to Huntsville, Alabama where a cousin of hers was studying. Gifty's mother and her father, affectionately nick-named The Chin-chin man, were Ghanaians who met and married late. ![]() She sends for her mother so she can take care of her and is overwhelmed by the remembrance of the first time her mother fell into a similar depression, when Gifty was 11. While experimenting on lab mice for her research, Gifty gets a call that her mother is not feeling well. The novel follows 28-year-old Gifty, a PhD candidate in neuroscience in her fifth year at Stanford University, and her Ghanaian-American mother, who is suffering from a deep depression. ![]() Transcendent Kingdom was found in Literary Hub to have made 17 lists of the best books of 2020. Transcendent Kingdom is a novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2020 by Alfred A. ![]()
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