The pressure created gives her novel a hard, beautiful, diamantine luster.” is burningly dedicated to the question of meaning. “Laser-like. A powerful, wholly unsentimental novel about family love, loss, belonging and belief that is more focused but just as daring as its predecessor, and to my mind even more successful. “ Transcendent Kingdom trades the blazing brilliance of Homegoing for another type of glory, more granular and difficult to name.” ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 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. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. 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. 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. Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed novel Homegoing is "a book of blazing brilliance" ( The Washington Post)-a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.Ī TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!.
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