Synopsis:
Yaa Gyasi's stunning sequel, which won the national success Homegoing, is a powerful, raw, intimate and highly stratified novel about a Ghanaian family from Alabama.
Gifty is a fifth-year neuroscience candidate at Stanford Medical School. He studies reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. His brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury made him addicted to OxyContin. His suicidal mother lives in his bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis of the suffering she sees around her. But even as she turns to the exact sciences to unravel the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself starving of her childhood faith and struggling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as enticing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of...
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Editor: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
The language: English
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This book just ruined me! I'm barely breathing, I'm sobbing. I've got to pull myself together! Come on, stop crying. Here's the hiccup! I have to breathe and exhale! Wow! It's one of those books that rips your heart out and changes your vision and emotional state at the same time. You're not the same person. We evolve, we hurt ourselves, we grow, we become more open-minded.
It's the poignant, original and heartbreaking story of a family who immigrated from a small town in Ghana, Alabama to realize their dream of a better life. They struggle to adapt, to assimilate, to be part of society.Good reads
Our narrator is the youngest daughter of the family, who is overshadowed by her brother Nana, a popular and talented athlete, who is also her mother's favorite child.
Chin Chin Man, the father of the family joins them later but he can't keep his job as a janitor. He decided to return to Ghana for a time to visit his family, but he never returned.
And Nana gets injured during training, so he slowly becomes dependent on OxyContin. Although he began to receive calls from major universities, having a bright future ahead of him, he began to suffer from mood swings. His mother tries to help him by sending him a treatment camp. She continues to pray and pray, but nothing works. Finally, one day, they find the officer at their door to tell them the shocking news: Nana overdosed.
Today, Gifty works hard to become a neuroscientist and studies at Stanford Medical School. She wants to focus on reward-seeking behavior to understand why her brother died and what still happens to her mother. She loses her belief in God and religion. She wants answers and, in her opinion, only science, concrete facts can give the right explanations to their bottled questions.
This book courageously questions faith, religion, our beliefs, difficult mental states and different ways of dealing with grief, racism, assimilation, the search for one's own truth and one's own path throughout its difficult life journey.
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It's a pure, heartbreaking, intense and honest book. The well-designed layering, unique and fascinating writing style captivate you from the beginning.
