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. 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. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. The transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and griefa novel about faith. How can religion, science, family or friends help us through life, especially in.

Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Absolutely loved this book: such great storytelling, so many questions raised. Her debut, Homegoing was widely read and loved. While Homegoing (2016) offers a family’s history over generations and across oceans, Transcendent Kingdom settles into the details of one nuclear family’s experience. Transcendent Kingdom is Yaa Gyasi’s long-awaited sophomore novel. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on Ox圜ontin. Y aa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom is an incredible follow-up and companion to her first novel. Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Transcendent Kingdom combines Gyasi’s interest in large, complex themes with a tighter structure and even sharper character study, resulting in a sensitive and propulsive story that reveals how. Gyasis wise second novel pivots toward intimacy In precise prose, Gyasi creates an ache of recognition, especially.

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