Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut. The main character, a Ghanaian American scientist named Gifty, belongs to the Pentecostal. 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. Despite being shortlisted for the Womens Prize, this novel definitely hasnt received the social media attention it deserves Not many books truly make. Transcendent Kingdom, her new novel, draws on Gyasi's life as the daughter of immigrants from Ghana. But for any reader interested in the subjects of faith and remembrance within a diasporic context, Transcendent Kingdom is without a doubt one of the most. 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. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on Ox圜ontin. 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.
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