NOTE: This review was written without having read the book for a video. You can watch the video here. I first came across Yaa Gyasi when I read her debut novel “Homegoing”, and I have to say I wasn't a fan. I'm not sure what it was about it, but I read it a long time before I had this account when I read almost exclusively non-fiction. I was very reluctant to pick up Transcendent Kingdom, then, but since so many of you responded positively to it in a poll I shared, I decided I should give...
