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Transcendent Kingdom : A novel

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Neuroscience meets family, faith, and addiction exploration.

This book is a powerful and raw exploration of the intertwined complexities of family, faith, addiction, and the pursuit of scientific knowledge. Through Gifty's journey as a neuroscience PhD candidate, the author delves into the deep layers of the human experience, examining the neural circuits of depression and addiction while hungering for her childhood faith. With a captivating blend of scientific exploration and emotional depth, Transcendent Kingdom is sure to leave readers contemplating the complexities of the human mind and heart.

  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2021)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Shortlist (2021)
  • Chautauqua Prize Nominee (2021)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2020)
  • Alabama Author Award for Fiction (2021)
  • Aspen Words Literary Prize Nominee for Longlist (2021)
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Transcendent Kingdom : A novel

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ISBN: 9781984899767
Authors: Yaa Gyasi
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2021-07-06
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 4.12
(rated by 144537 readers)

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Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller 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 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 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 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. 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, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.
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Neuroscience meets family, faith, and addiction exploration.

This book is a powerful and raw exploration of the intertwined complexities of family, faith, addiction, and the pursuit of scientific knowledge. Through Gifty's journey as a neuroscience PhD candidate, the author delves into the deep layers of the human experience, examining the neural circuits of depression and addiction while hungering for her childhood faith. With a captivating blend of scientific exploration and emotional depth, Transcendent Kingdom is sure to leave readers contemplating the complexities of the human mind and heart.

  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2021)
  • Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Shortlist (2021)
  • Chautauqua Prize Nominee (2021)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2020)
  • Alabama Author Award for Fiction (2021)
  • Aspen Words Literary Prize Nominee for Longlist (2021)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.