Transcendent kingdom goodreads5/7/2023 But her brother’s addiction, overdose death, and her mother’s subsequent depression altered her relationship with religion irrevocably. Gifty grew up in a very religious household, attending a Pentecostal church that was the center of her life. Her parent’s life in Ghana, the decision to move to America, her upbringing in the church and how heavily it influenced her life even in the present, her lifelong tendency to question everything, racism, and the immense suffering that has been present in her family due to addiction and depression. We learn about Gifty’s life through her present day reality and flashes of her past, where her entire story is revealed little by little. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family’s losses, 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.Īfter being blown away by Homegoing, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this book. 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.
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