![]() ![]() After a perfectly ordinary ankle injury playing basketball in high school, her 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 the healthy drink Ensure-and then finding a way to stop the addicted mouse from seeking his pleasure. The narrator, Gifty, raised in Huntsville, is a genius, a Harvard graduate and now a PhD candidate at Stanford University, doing very sophisticated neuroscience work in her laboratory. ![]() Shorter in chronological scope, it is intense and unapologetically challenging. This second novel is also a great success, a bestseller and critically acclaimed. ![]() That epic story of eight generations of a family of Ghanaian-Americans 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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