📖 peek insideTranscendent Kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi
Gifty is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford, studying reward-seeking behavior in mice to understand the addiction that destroyed her brother's life and the depression consuming her mother. Raised in a strict evangelical household in Alabama, she finds herself caught between the hard science she practices and the faith of her childhood. This intimate and powerful novel explores the intersection of religion and science, the legacy of grief, and a young woman's search for meaning in a world of suffering.
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