Are religion and science two opposite beliefs ? Gifty is battling with this question. As a PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine, working on addiction and depression through experiments on mice behaviour, she is tempted to answer no. As the sister of Nana, her brother who died from an overdose after being hooked on oxycodone or the daughter of her severely depressed mother that is lying in her own bed, she wonders. Could God help ? Could this evangelical religion she was brought up with offer the answers to life’s miseries and the true promise of salvation ? A very touching story of an expatriate Ghanaian family.
“All you have to do is watch a child ride her bike directly into a brick wall or jump from the tallest branch of a sycamore tree to know that we are reckless with our bodies, reckless with our lives, for no other reason than that we want to know what would happen, what it might feel like to brush up against death, to run right up to the edge of our lives, which is, in some ways, to live fully.”