Transcendent Kingdom: A Read with Jenna Pick by Yaa Gyasi

Transcendent Kingdom: A Read with Jenna Pick by Yaa Gyasi

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.

Yaa Gyasi grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, after being born in Ghana. She graduated from Stanford University with a BA in English and an MFA from Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was awarded a Dean's Graduate Research Scholarship. She currently resides in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9781984899767
ISBN 10	1984899767
Title	Transcendent Kingdom: A Read with Jenna Pick
Author	Yaa Gyasi
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2021-07-06
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Short-listed for Women's Prize for Fiction 2021, Long-listed for PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2021
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.