Join us for our January Reading with Friends event to discuss Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.
Reading with Friends is a virtual monthly book club. Hosted concurrently around the world, small groups of Friends meet to discuss the book of the month in self-moderated conversations.
Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of Gifty, a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine, who 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.
Join us for our January Reading with Friends event to discuss Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi.
Reading with Friends is a virtual monthly book club. Hosted concurrently around the world, small groups of Friends meet to discuss the book of the month in self-moderated conversations.
Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of Gifty, a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine, who 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.
