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Violence
Barely any
No violence; a brother's overdose death
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult content
Substance Use
A lot
Heroin addiction and overdose death central to the plot
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Themes of addiction, faith vs science, and the grief of watching your family destroyed
What this book is about
Gyasi's 2020 second novel follows Gifty, a Ghanaian-American neuroscientist studying reward and addiction, whose brother died of a heroin overdose and whose deeply religious mother has become catatonic. Intimate and searching. For older teens and adults.
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Heroin addiction
Overdose death
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