Transcendent Kingdom Yaa Gyasi by Yaa Gyasi 9780241988664, 0241988667 instant download after payment.

"Gyasi tackles a complex web of themes, weaving together a story that inches toward a quiet redemption. Along the way, it is a joy simply to delight in the language she uses in her close observation of life, the quotidian details made fresh... She has found that right, clearest sound, and it is transcendent."  -  Jennifer Bort Yacovissi, Washington Review Of Books

Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behaviour 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 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. 

"Gyasi’s style here is especially striking... If Homegoing progressed in a more or less linear fashion, in this book narrative time is more relative... the picture of mental illness in Transcendent Kingdom is darker and more nuanced... Transcendent Kingdom trades the blazing brilliance of Homegoing for another type of glory, more granular and difficult to name."  -  Nell Freudenberger, The New York Times Book Review

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 - exquisitely written, emotionall