![]() The addiction absolutely controlled his life and then killed him. We are told of his descent, his attempts at recovery, his treatments, his relapses. This work is not an abstraction for Gifty.Īfter a perfectly ordinary ankle injury playing basketball in high school, her beloved older brother became addicted to prescribed Oxycontin, then heroin, then overdosed. Her experiment involves first getting mice addicted, so they will endure any pain to keep getting their reward - in this case, rather ironically, the healthy drink Ensure - and then finding a way to stop the addicted mouse from seeking his pleasure. She has already, as a student, published three papers in very important journals. candidate at Stanford University, doing very sophisticated neuroscience work in her laboratory. The narrator, Gifty, raised In Huntsville, is a genius, a Harvard graduate and now a Ph.D. More: Black sisters try to escape from 1964 Mississippi | DON NOBLE Shorter in chronological scope, it is intense, deals with a wide variety of concerns, and is unapologetically challenging. ![]() This second novel, "Transcendent Kingdom," is also a great success, a bestseller and critically acclaimed. That epic story of eight generations of a family of Ghanaians, from the days of slave catching in Africa and the Middle Passage to high school in Huntsville, Alabama, won prizes and put Gyasi on everyone’s list of writers to watch. ![]() Yaa Gyasi’s debut novel “Homegoing,” in 2016, was a sensation. ![]()
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