Shaken by his father's abandonment, Nana quit soccer, a sport which he had been proficient in, and in high school joined basketball. Never settling in Alabama, The Chin-chin man eventually returned to Ghana for what was initially supposed to be a short trip, never to return. The family was anchored around Nana's prodigious gifts as an athlete and their mother's fervent religious zeal which Gifty inherited. Gifty was born a few years later, and was an unwanted pregnancy. Gifty's father eventually relocated to America to be with his family but was only able to find unstable work as a janitor. Gifty's mother was forced to take menial jobs, eventually become a caretaker to abusive and racist elderly patients. They had a brilliant son, Nana, and after his birth Gifty's mother, seeking a better life for her child, relocated to Huntsville, Alabama where a cousin of hers was studying. Gifty's mother and her father, affectionately nick-named The Chin-chin man, were Ghanaians who met and married late. She sends for her mother so she can take care of her and is overwhelmed by the remembrance of the first time her mother fell into a similar depression, when Gifty was 11. While experimenting on lab mice for her research, Gifty gets a call that her mother is not feeling well. 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. Transcendent Kingdom was found in Literary Hub to have made 17 lists of the best books of 2020. Transcendent Kingdom is the second novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2020 by Alfred A.
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