Book Club: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

All are welcome to join the discussion! Refreshments will be served.

Copies of the book - in both regular and large print - are available for pick up at the West Harrison Branch Library located at 2 Madison Street West Harrison, NY 10604.

You must have a library card from a Westchester Library System member library to check out a copy of the book. A library card, however, is NOT required to join the discussion.

Westchester Library System library cardholders are also welcome to place a hold on the book for pick up at their local library.

This event will take place in the West Harrison Branch's large classroom on the 3rd floor upstairs.

Book Summary (from Penguin Random House): 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 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.

Location:
Harrison Public Library - West Harrison Branch
2 Madison Street
West Harrison, NY 10604
914-948-2092