NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed novel Homegoing is a book
of blazing brilliance (The Washington Post)—a powerful raw intimate deeply layered novel
about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for
the WOMEN'S PRIZEGifty 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.
