Renee
Written on Jan 20, 2021
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national bestseller 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 University's School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behaviour 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 hard science 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 Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written and emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.
- ISBN10 0385695179
- ISBN13 9780385695176
- Publish Date 1 September 2020
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country CA
- Publisher Doubleday Canada
- Imprint Bond Street Books
- Format Hardcover (Deckle Edge)
- Pages 288
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9780385695176
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