Another total piece of art from Yaa Gyasi (if you haven’t read Homegoing, add it to your list). Transcendent Kingdom finds the main character, Gifty, reconciling science and religion (and the “kingdom” of each) as she struggles to cope with her father’s absence, her mother’s religion and mental illness, her own childhood as an evangelical, and, most of all, her brother’s death by heroin overdose after getting addicted to painkillers following a high school sports injury.

Yaa Gyasi's books are so smart and well-researched. I really loved this one.