TRANSCENDENT KINGDOM; Yaa Gyasi
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. First Edition, presumed First Printing with no number line. Cloth. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with silver lettering over tan boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with image of a black woman praying; a six-page questions section for the author as a foreword and a three-page discussion guide as an afterword, 261, [262-264] pages + [2] Blank + [2] Acknowledgements + [2] A Note About the Author + [2] A Note on the Type. As New / As New. Item #8481
ISBN: 9780525658184
Yaa Gyasi (born 1989) is a Ghanaian-American novelist. Her debut novel, Homegoing, published in 2016, won her, at the age of 26, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for best first book, the PEN/Hemingway Award for a first book of fiction, the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" honors for 2016 and the American Book Award.
Transcendent Kingdom made 17 lists of the best books of 2020. 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.
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