Make Your Selection: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

A powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty, a PhD candidate in neuroscience, is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. Now, 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. Grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive.