Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi

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Gifty is a GhanaianAmerican neuroscientist studying for a PhD in California. As she experiments, she dwells on her evangelical Christian upbringing in Alabama, the father who abandoned her, and her beloved brother’s death from opioid addiction. How can she reconcile belief in God with her commitment to science and her experience of tragedy and racism? Gyasi’s novel is a thoughtful analysis of a pressing social problem.