Transcendent Kingdom
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION
Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national bestseller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.
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. 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…