Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on Ox圜ontin. 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. 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. It was an instant New York Times bestseller and has met with rave reviews. Transcendent Kingdom has generated a huge amount of buzz. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. in English from Stanford University and an M.F.A. Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. Last year, we launched our Happier Podcast Book Club, and today’s conversation is about the brilliant novel Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi ( Amazon, Bookshop). Happier Podcast Book Club: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi For our upcoming Very Special Episode 300, we’re doing an “Ask Us Anything.” Send us your questions!
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