Tras el exito de Volver a casa, Yaa Gyasi vuelve con un relato intimo y valiente sobre una familia ghanesa en Alabama.

Estudiante de doctorado en neurociencia, Gifty explora la conducta en ratones para investigar el funcionamiento de los circuitos neuronales de la depresion y la adiccion, dos enfermedades que han causado estragos entre sus seres mas queridos: su hermano, Nana, era una promesa del atletismo que murio hace anos a causa de una sobredosis de heroina tras una lesion de tobillo y la dependencia al OxyContin, mientras que su madre ha vuelto a caer en una depresion severa. Aunque Gifty esta decidida a descubrir la base cientifica que anida en el sufrimiento familiar, se topa una y otra vez con la fe religiosa y los valores de la Iglesia evangelica que marcaron su infancia, un mundo cuya promesa de salvacion sigue siendo tan tentadora como inalcanzable.

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Yaa Gyasi’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.

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. 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.

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, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi’s phenomenal debut.