Book : Transcendent Kingdom A Novel - Gyasi, Yaa

-Titulo Original : Transcendent Kingdom A Novel

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Yaa Gyasis stunning follow-up to her acclaimed novelHomegoing 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 WOMENS PRIZEGifty 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 familys 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. Review An Amazon Best Book of September 2020: Yaa Gyasi’s debut Homegoing was a sweeping, multi-generational novel that covered 300 years of Ghanaian and American history. It was moving and powerful, and it announced a rare new talent. The question was, how would she follow up that novel? Transcendent Kingdom is contemporary and grounded in one time period, but it is equally impressive. Gyasi’s talent is very real and very consistent. The story introduces Gifty, a PhD candidate in neuroscience at Stanford. She studies addiction and depression in mice, but addiction and depression exist in her family as well. Her once-promising brother died of a heroin overdose, and her depressed mother believes only prayer can heal her. Gifty is very much a contemporary, forward-looking character-a Ghanaian-American woman who is excelling in science at one of the best schools in the world-but she is also drawn by memories of faith and family in Alabama where she grew up. There are differences between Gyasi’s first two novels, but both are inhabited by characters that are multi-dimensional and real. And both are brilliant. -Chris Schluep, Amazon Book ReviewEditors pick: Filled with depth and emotion, Gifty is one of the most interesting, fully realized characters I have read this year.-Chris Schluep, Amazon Editor Review ONE OF THE GUARDIANS BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR“Transcendent Kingdom trades the blazing brilliance of Homegoing for another type of glory, more granular and difficult to name.” -The New York Times Book Review “Laser-like. . . . A powerful, wholly unsentimental novel about family love, loss, belonging and belief that is more focused but just as daring as its predecessor, and to my mind even more successful. . . . [Transcendent Kingdom] is burningly dedicated to the question of meaning. . . . The pressure created gives her novel a hard, beautiful, diamantine luster.” -The Wall Street Journal “Yaa Gyasi’s profoundly moving second novel takes place in the vast, fragile landscape where the mysteries of God and the certainties of science collide. Through deliberate and precise prose, the book becomes an expansive meditation on grief, religion, and family.” -The Boston Globe “A stealthily devastating novel of family, faith and identity that’s as philosophical as it is personal.” -USA Today “Will stay with you long after you’ve finished it.” -Real Simple “Achingly lovely. . . . With her sophomore novel, Gyasi is narrowing her scope. Transcendent Kingdom is the story of one specific girl in one specific family: it is interior, psychological, and deeply focused on sifting through the layers of Gifty’s mind as she studies and prays and experiments to try to find her way to what lies at the core of human beings.” -Vox “A luminous, heartbreaking and redemptive American story, Transcendent Kingdom is the mark of a brilliant writer who is just getting started.” -Seatt