
Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi
A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- National Geographic Books
- Year
- 2020
- ISBN-13
- 9780593215302
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- Faith and scienceAddiction and griefImmigrant family life
Awards
- Women's Prize for FictionShortlistedMajor(2021)
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