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. 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.Ī TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!.
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