Event Details

For Black History Month 2022 the Library is launching the first Lancaster University ‘Big Library Read’ of Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. The book is available electronically theough the Libby ap, with 50 copies of the print book available.

For Black History Month 2022 the Library is launching the first Lancaster University ‘Big Library Read’ of Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021). The book is available by downloading the Libby app where you can download the book free on your tablet or mobile.

We will also have 50 copies of the print book available on Friday 21^st October from 10 a.m. (Wear it Read Day – Show racism the red card) – just visit A Floor of the Library to pick up your copy (while stocks last).

Synopsis

“ As a child, Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. But when her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of life in America, their family of four becomes two. While her mother finds solace in religion, Gifty will look to science in an attempt to understand the addiction that destroyed her brother. But she will soon realize that the roots of their tangled traumas reach further back than she could have ever imagined.”

There are a number of reading groups/ book clubs at Lancaster University who will be joining the Big Read. If you are interested in joining please see contact details below (details to follow).