Transcendent Kingdom: Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021

From the bestselling author of Homegoing comes an epic novel about mothers, daughters, love, loss and the American Dream, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize

When Gifty’s parents move from Ghana to Alabama they don’t expect the hard reality of immigrant life that awaits them. As their family dwindles - from four to three to two - the life Gifty dreamed of slips away. Years later, she turns to science for answers about the addiction that destroyed her brother’s life but when her mother comes to stay, she realises that the roots of their past reach even further back than she thought. Tracing her family’s story through generations and continents, Gifty finds herself deep in the dark heart of modern America, surrounded by the tangled tendrils of a history she is just discovering.

A searing story of love, loss, redemption and the American Dream, Transcendent Kingdom considers the myriad ways we try to rebuild our lives from the rubble of our collective pasts.