Get your tissues ready. In this episode, the Squad discusses Yaa Gyasi’s novel Transcendent Kingdom. Join us as we chat about mental health, depression, addiction, grief, racism, religion, and, yes, we do cry it out a little bit. You’re welcome to join the trust circle and cry along with us. We’re all friends here. Don’t forget to join us for our next Othersode where we’ll be talking about the film Nomadland, and we’ll also interview Nicole Glover about her debut novel The Conductors. Read along with us for our next Bookpisode, too. We’ll be chatting about When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole! Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review. We love you!

Table of Contents
:30–Read black authors!
2:00– Trigger warning: addiction, depression, suicide
3:24–One good thing this week
8:55–Getting into the book
12:08–Does the book/protagonist come to a conclusion about the relationship between faith and science?
23:50–Mental illness and depression
37:20–Addiction
59:23–Racism
1:15:45–Misc. Topics, queerness
1:25:07–The book is SHORT, but does it work? And ratings.
1:30:27–Listener feedback!
1:40:09–What’s on the blog? What’s up next?

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