White Rock Hills Book Club: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

The White Rock Hills Book Club meets monthly on the second Thursday of the month and is open to any and all. 

This month's book is Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.

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 fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford 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 a knee 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.

To register for future sessions, follow the links below:

February 10: While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams

March 10: 1984 by George Orwell

April 14: A Girl Named Carrie by Jerrie Marcus Smith

This program is available online only.