Transcendent Kingdom

by Gyasi, Yaa
ISBN: 9780593215333
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Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama

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. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But 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. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanain immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Gyasi, Yaa
  • ISBN: 9780593215333
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.00 x 1.20
  • Number Of Pages: 416
  • Publication Year: 2020

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  • A truly transcendent novel about religion, science, addiction, and trauma.

    Marina E. - 6 years 11 months ago

    This is one of the most well written and intricately weaved pieces of literary fiction I have read in my lifetime. Gyasi is an exceptional storyteller, she weaves the narrative thread of this story with the precision of a neurosurgeon. She is able to take themes like religion and science, addiction and forgiveness, things that feel so inherently at odds, and bring them to together in a way that feels less scientific and more magical.

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