Book Club Kit: Transcendent Kingdom is one of a new series of supporting brochures and materials available for top end fiction and nonfiction titles from Penguin Random House Librarian Resources. Released 11th Feb 2021 by Penguin Random House, this entry is filled with interesting background history to enhance the personal or book-club reading experience for Yaa Gyasi's powerful and pointed book from 2020. This brochure is 5 pages long and includes discussion questions, background reference, suggested reading list (with authors), and a short interview with the author.
I enjoy the extra resources and enhancements the larger publishing houses are able to employ to support their publications. I also appreciate that most library systems can provide quite a lot of extra support and guidance to their patrons and groups. These materials would be appropriate for online/remote discussion groups, formal education (gender & race studies, sociology , modern history, and allied subjects), and for enhancing personal reading. I found a number of good ideas for further reading including authors with whom I was previously unfamiliar.
Five stars. Compact, succinct, beautiful typesetting and graphics. It does -not- include the original book, just the discussion and support materials. Available free from the publisher's website.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
No comments:
Post a Comment