![]() ![]() It is impossible to compare the two books, as they are so completely different. I have been impatiently waiting for her sophomore novel, and let me tell you that Transcendent Kingdom was well worth the wait. When I read Yaa Gyasi’s debut, Homegoing, a couple years ago I just knew that she would become an autobuy author for me. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi’s phenomenal debut. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief–a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her.īut even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family’s loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. ![]() Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on Ox圜ontin. Gifty is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. ![]()
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