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Transcendent Kingdom: A novel

Yaa Gyasi

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed novel Homegoing is "a book of blazing brilliance" (The Washington Post)—a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.

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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 injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed.

Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive.

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Not So Well Read\ \ Courtney\ \ • May 20 2025

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So, the Chicago Sun Times published a Summer Reading List full of fake, AI-generated books. So, as a certified human being and a book professional, I'm here to give you ACTUAL books based off their fake ones.\ \ Fake Book: Tidewater Dreams by Isabel Allende Real Book: My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende \ \ Y'all... this author literally published a new book last week. The bar was on the floor. Anyway, Emilia del Valle has nothing to do with climate fiction, but instead is a coming-of-age story set in the beginning of the Chilean Civil War of 1891.\ \ Fake Book: The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir Real Book: I am AI by Ai Jiang \ \ In the height of irony, the Chicago Sun Times literally let ChatGPT (or whatever) recommend a fake book about AI secretly influencing global events. Might I recommend they read this book about an author who begins replacing parts of her body with technology so she can keep up with the constant content created by AI.\ \ Fake Book: Hurricane Season by Britt Bennett Real Book: Private Rites by Julia Armfield \ \ I'm partially convinced that this fake book was actually inspired by Private Rites to some extent. While the jury is still out on the reconciliation part, this is definitely a book about estranged siblings sheltering in their childhood home while tensions and sea levels rise.\ \ Fake Book: The Collector's Piece by Taylor Jenkins Reid Real Book: Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez \ \ Want a real book set in the art world that incorporates mystery, art history, and a little bit of romance? Well, one of my favorite contemporary fiction authors, Xochitl Gonzalez wrote just that.\ \ Fake Book: Nightshade Market by Min Jin Lee Real Book: If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha \ \ Though it's not set in an underground Korean night market, If I Had Your Face does actually examine "class, gender, and shadow economies" through the lives of four young women in contemporary Seoul. \ \ Fake Book: The Longest Day by Rumaan Alam Real Book: Dead Water by C.A. Fletcher\ \ "Summer solstice" and "remote vacation compound" are giving the same vibes as this eerie folk horror novel about a remote community that falls into hysteria after ferry service fails and a deadly disease begins to spread.\ \ Fake Book: Boiling Point by Rebecca Makkai Real Book: Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich \ \ Jesus christ, if Rebecca Makkai did ever write this book, I hope her publishing team would come up with a title a little less heavy handed than "Boiling Point". Anyway, Odds Against Tomorrow confronts the idea of wealth and disaster through the eyes of an insurance agent who may just profit from the end of the world.\ \ Fake Book: Migrations by Maggie O'Farrell Real Book: Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy \ \ Once again, the bar was on the ground.\ \ Fake Book: The Rainmakers by Percival Everrett Real Book: Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang \ \ This is one of my all time favorite books and it just so happens to confront the intersections between privilege, opportunity, and complicity. Though it's not set in a dystopian west it's instead set in a mountaintop oasis where flavor is the greatest luxury. \ \ Fake Book: Salt and Honey by Delia Owens Real Book: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi \ \ Okay, this one really didn't give me much to go on other than "coming of age", "science", and... Utah? So... we're going to go with Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi which is about a young PHD candidate trying find her way through grief, trauma, and religion.\ \ Bonus Recommendation: The book I really wanted to recommend for the above is To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage, which I'm currently reading, a coming-of-age story about a young woman who is determined to become the first Cherokee astronaut, but it doesn't come out until October–so no summer reading. You should, however, preorder it for your fall reading list!!

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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Sep 7 2024

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Celestial\ \ Steph\ \ • Aug 9 2024

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Boundless Press\ \ Jananie\ \ • Nov 24 2022

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faqs 🤍 how do you pronounce your name? - my name is Jananie—pronounced JEN-nah-nee (like a knee!)

🤍 what's your background/ethnicity/etc? - both my parents are Sri Lankan Tamil, and I was born and raised in Canada!

🤍 what is your job? - aside from youtube I also work in product marketing!

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