Gyasi’s new novel, “Transcendent Kingdom,” is a book of blazing brilliance. In a completely different register, “Transcendent Kingdom” is still and ruminative — a novel of profound scientific and spiritual reflection that recalls the works of Richard Powers and Marilynne Robinson. The narrator of “Transcendent Kingdom” is a young neuroscientist at Stanford, a Ghanaian-American named Gifty. Wholly obsessed with her job, she maintains no social life, almost no life at all outside the lab. ADADThough almost comatose, Gifty’s mother rejects any psychological or psychotropic treatment, convinced that only prayer can save her.

Source: Washington Post August 25, 2020 11:03 UTC