But in her search for answers, she also finds herself increasingly drawn back to the evangelical faith in which she was raised. In a quest to understand the suffering that she and her family have experienced, Gifty throws herself into her neuroscience research. Her brother, Nana, has passed away from an overdose after an Ox圜ontin prescription for an ankle injury led him to a heroin addiction, and her mother, gravely depressed, has come to stay with her. Transcendent Kingdom tells the story of a young Ghanaian-American woman named Gifty who is pursuing a Ph.D. And let me tell you, it does not disappoint. When I heard Gyasi had a second book out, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on a copy. I distinctly remember reading that epic debut novel, unable to tear myself away from the story. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, it is also a testament to Yaa Gyasi’s extraordinary range and ambition, a leap into completely new territory undertaken with effortless command and raw emotion, in language that soars.If you asked me to choose a favorite book written in the last decade, I would have to pick Yaa Gyasi’s debut novel, Homegoing. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief-a novel about faith, science, religion, love. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family’s losses, 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. Yaa Gyasi’s stunning follow-up to her acclaimed Homegoing: a novel about a Ghanaian family in the contemporary South, at once a profound story about race in America and an astonishingly intimate portrait of a young woman reckoning, spiritually and intellectually, with a legacy of unmanageable loss.

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