'A piercing story of faith, science and the opioid crisis. The book made the shortlist for the 2021 Women’s. candidate at Stanford University, and her Ghanaian-American mother who suffers from depression. not a word or idea out of place' Roxane Gay The novel follows 28-year-old Gifty, a Ph.D. Transcendent Kingdom is a searing story of love, loss and redemption, and the myriad ways we try to rebuild our lives from the rubble of our collective pasts. Tracing her family's story through continents and generations will take her deep into the dark heart of modern America. But when her mother comes to stay, Gifty soon learns that the roots of their tangled traumas reach farther than she ever thought. Years later, desperate to understand the opioid addiction that destroyed her brother's life, she turns to science for answers. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty dreamed of slips away. A shortlist of six books, from a longlist of 16, was announced on April 28, 2021. **From the bestselling author of Homegoing**Īs a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. Started in 1996, the Women's Prize for Fiction is an annual award given to an outstanding, ambitious, original fiction written by a woman author in English. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021
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