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“Holy is the Mouse”: Science and Faith in Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi’s second novel,  Transcendent Kingdom, opens with epigraphs from poets Gerard Manley Hopkins and Sharon Olds.  The quotation from Hopkins, though over a century earlier than Olds’, is probably the less obscure:  “the world is charged with the grandeur of God./It will flame out,…