![]() ![]() Subjects: Gyasi, Yaa Autographs Specimens. ![]() ![]() Yaa Gyasi is a poster child for literary kismet. Knopf, 2020 UNT Libraries Denton - Remote Storage, PS3607.Y. Yaa Gyasi, 31, is set to unveil her sophomore novel, Transcendent Kingdom, in a world that needs her work more than ever. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasís phenomenal debut. Book (Print/Paper) Yaa Gyasi New York : Alfred A. 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. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her.īut 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. 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. In Yaa Gyasi’s New Novel, a Young Scientist Tries to Understand Her Family’s Pain In Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi builds her characters scientifically, observation by observation. Yaa Gyasí'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. ![]()
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