Transcendent Kingdomepub,mobi,azw3格式电子书下载，作者：Yaa Gyasi-读书派

Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at 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. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.

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10-31

读过作者的Homegoing，不完美但故事称得上是史诗级别。这本完全不同，故事涉及的主题很多，religion, racism, drug abuse, mental health, dynamics within an immigrant family等等。主要的板块是religion书里有很多大段的独白是Gifty在讨论自己在不同年龄段对宗教信仰的不同态度，不同程度的虔诚以及怀疑，以及个人宗教信仰与科学研究之间的关系。小时候无比虔诚，后来发现对圣经的理解因人而异，关于罪恶的教育给self-loathing埋下种子，而且有太多事情信仰和科学都无法解释。我自己从没有过这种信仰和科学之间的conflict所以读着Gifty的各种introspection觉得挺有意思的。

09-13

读过作者的第一本书，感觉没有一句废话，非常好看，印象很深。这次先听了几个对作者采访的podcast，终于等到这本书，一口气读完。不出意外，依旧喜欢。不是喊口号似的呐喊，但是润物细无声。真正做到了Show, not tell。很喜欢。

Y门食客

10-10

Yaa Gyasi的处女作收获了压倒性的好评，她的这本新作也让诸多人翘首以待。包括书评人在内的众人的对她的评价，让我以为她是一个天才作家，年轻且有才华。我期待值太高了，以致我觉得这部作品略显一般。一个从非洲移民到美国的家庭，一代为了生存而挣扎，二代在贫穷、不安定、种族歧视的困扰下泯灭。叙述者试图寻找答案，为何她的家庭要承担这么多的悲苦，但宗教和科学都没有给她提供令她满意的答案。一个少数裔族，是注定要经历种族歧视的。一个女性，是注定要遭遇性别歧视的。无人能躲过，不管知晓与否。被歧视的人，极大概率会内化歧视。

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