Transcendent Kingdom is quiet in the way a wise soul will sit in the corner, clear their throat and when they speak, everyone listens.

iĪ compelling look at a woman's struggle to move on from the devastating effects of her family falling apart in front of her eyes Stylist Transcendent Kingdom is a quietly magnificent novel - vivid, touching and beautifully written, and also unafraid to be, and to remain, really very sad. There's bravery as well as beauty here Observer Perhaps neither science nor religion alone could capture transcendence, but Gyasi has proved, once again, that a novel can GuardianĪmong other things is a sharp reckoning with the tensions between race, science and s scope is pared back, its register intimate - not many writers can switch style like this Sunday Times CultureĪ piercing story of faith, science and the opioid crisis. The range Gyasi displays in just two books is staggering USA Today Gyasi's second novel, Transcendent Kingdom, is a very different book, and, I think, a better one - contemporary, personal, acutely focused on a single family, and intensely felt New Yorker With deft agility and undeniable artistry, Gyasi's latest is an eloquent examination of resilient survival BooklistĪ powerful, wholly unsentimental novel about family love, loss, belonging and belief that is more focused but just as daring as its predecessor, and to my mind even more successful Wall Street Journal At once a vivid evocation of the immigrant experience and a sharp delineation of an individual's inner struggle, the novel brilliantly succeeds on both counts Publishers Weekly, starred review Yaa Gyasi is one of the most enlightening novelists writing today Washington Post A double helix of wisdom and rage twists through the quiet lines of this novel.

I am quite angry this is so good Roxane GayĪ book of blazing brilliance. Transcendent Kingdom is a novel for all times Ann PatchettĪbsolutely transcendent.

If you want to know why the world is this way, try this book for starters Naomi Alderman, author of The Power It's impossible not to admire the ambition and scope of Homegoing New York Times

explores horror without ever losing sight of humanity or hope Sunday Times on 'Homegoing'Ī stirringly gifted writer. Remarkable, a devastating account of America. I need a book like this to remember what is possible Ta-Nehisi Coates on 'Homegoing'

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