Be warned, Transcendent Kingdom is a really sad (but thoughtful) novel. It’s a difficult story to describe as it depicts the rawest emotions with such a calm beauty. We’re following a family who immigrated from a small town in Ghana to Alabama and struggles to adjust. Through Gifty’s journaling process (the youngest of the family), we discover a woman trying to survive the grief of a brother lost to addiction and a mother trapped in depression while pursuing her ambitions. 
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I read this book several months ago, but needed time to digest the sheer magic it brought into my life. I’ve always had a soft spot for teen novels that can pass for adult fiction and this one is certainly one of them ! Here, Frances Hardinge delivers a vibrant world-building in this spellbinding fantasy adventure of gods, deep-sea creatures and pirates. The inventiveness and richness of the descriptions will allow you to live a thousand stories in one. I loved the gentle, ambivalen…