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Transcendent Kingdom A novel

Yaa Gyasi

NEW YORK TIMES 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. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an a...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

The speaker mentioned having just finished Transcendent Kingdom, a novel about a neuroscientist that also touches on adolescence and development.

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Personally, I actually just finished a book called Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.

— Episode: The Teen Mental Health Crisis, Part 2

Episode: The Teen Mental Health Crisis, Part 2

The speaker mentioned having just finished Transcendent Kingdom, a novel about a neuroscientist that also touches on adolescence and development.

"

Personally, I actually just finished a book called Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.

Strict Scrutiny

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Strict Scrutiny

This was the author's second book, which was considered very good, though perhaps not as powerful as her debut, *Homegoing*.

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Yah Gyasi's who is the author of Homegoing has a second book called Transcendent Kingdom and that's also very good. Not sweeping in the manner of homegoing but very, very wrenching and beautifully wri...

— Episode: All I Want For Christmas Is Democracy

Episode: All I Want For Christmas Is Democracy

This was the author's second book, which was considered very good, though perhaps not as powerful as her debut, *Homegoing*.

"

Yah Gyasi's who is the author of Homegoing has a second book called Transcendent Kingdom and that's also very good. Not sweeping in the manner of homegoing but very, very wrenching and beautifully written.

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