![]() Yaa Gyasi discusses Transcendent Kingdom with New Yorker staff writer Doreen St. While trying to unlock the scientific basis for the suffering that has shaped her family and her own identity, Gifty is haunted, by the spectres of her dead brother, depressed mother, and absent father, by the isolation she experienced as a Ghanian immigrant in Alabama, and by the contradictions of the evangelical church in which she was raised and where her worldview was shaped. ![]() Her brother died years earlier of a heroin overdose after becoming dependent on Ox圜ontin, and her mother lays silently in Gifty's bed, refusing food. Gifty is pursuing a doctorate at Stanford, looking for the biological and neurological drivers of addiction and depression. The bestselling author affirms the possibility of turning loss and devastation into inspiration and hope in her new novel.įour years after publishing her bestselling debut novel, Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi returns with Transcendent Kingdom, a heartbreaking, hope-filled meditation on love and grief, faith and science, addiction and abandonment, immigration and isolation. ![]()
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