This week Sydney and Paige discuss "Transcendent Kingdom" by Yaa Gyasi.  Giftie is a PhD student at Standford studying the effects of addiction on the brain in order to create an effective treatment.  Little known to her friends and colleagues, Giftie's passion for this science stems from personal experience when her older brother Nana died from an opioid overdose.  With hard hitting themes of addiction, religion, depression, family relationships, and struggling to understand oneself, "Transcendent Kingdom" delivers an emotional story from a fresh voice.  Tune in to hear our thoughts when they take an existential turn...