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Transcendent Kingdom: A Read with Jenna Pick

Transcendent Kingdom: A Read with Jenna Pick

Gyasi, Yaa

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 1984899767
ISBN13: 9781984899767
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jul 6 2021
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.70
Language: English

Gyasi's second novel is equally beautifully written as her first. The main character is trying to understand suffering through both her scientific exploits in neuroscience and her deeply religious upbringing. This novel explores how and why we find meaning and motivation and through which sources. -Catherine

 

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - 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.

A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! - Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE

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. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle 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.

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