A New York Times bestseller about science and faith, love and addiction. A new novel by the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the winner of the Granta Prize, a finalist of the Women's Prize. One of the most anticipated new products is 2021 according to Forbes.Gifty, the daughter of Ghanaian migrants. Her family flew to America, but she still feels like a stranger, lost between two countries, religion and science.The girl is a sixth-year student of the Department of Neurology at Stanford, where she studies neural circuits of reward-seeking behavior and depression and conducts experiments on mice. Scientific experiments for Gifty (she is trying to wean mice from self—destructive actions in the pursuit of pleasure) are a way to understand what is happening in her own family: to rid her brother of addiction, to save her mother from depression.A few years ago, Gifty's brother, a gifted athlete, died of a heroin overdose, his father returned to Ghana, and his mother has not been able to overcome clinical depression for many years (she hopes to heal with prayers).Turning to science, Gifty stubbornly continues to search for answers in the bosom of the church that raised her. The salvation that the church promises angers the girl and causes a feeling of hopelessness. Excelling in science at one of the best universities in the world, Gifty recalls the family in which she grew up: there was always a lack of warmth in their relationship, but there were four of them, and only two remained. At the age of 28, Gifty is acutely aware of loneliness, keeps a diary in which he talks about his family under false names and talks with God. She finds a friend — a colleague in the laboratory, Catherine, and a young man, Khan, with whom it is easier to carry the baggage of the past.Who is this book for:For readers of intellectual prose.For fans of Elizabeth Strout, Toni Morrison.For everyone who loves novels with a strong heroine in the center of the plot.From the translator:"The World of the Unearthly" is the story of a girl who is going through a crisis in her family and, having no other support, plunges headlong into science, trying to find an answer to the question with her help: what makes a person unhappy? Suddenly it is possible to derive a formula, isolate the decisive factor and save people from depression or addiction? Or simply to justify to herself why life in a seemingly prosperous family could go awry.The author seems to dissect feelings and puts his characters in difficult situations, analyzing their behavior, as the heroine herself, Gifty, watches her experimental mice in the laboratory.This is a book about the evolution of faith. Unconditional children's faith in a miracle eventually begins to erode reality, where prayer does not always bring salvation, and there is no answer to the question asked, but deep down there is a longing for that former confidence: someone is looking after you and will definitely save you at the right moment. The book is about dissolving oneself in someone else's life, where a mother's fanatical love turns into a disaster for herself, where the daughter is so involved in the mother's existence that she forgets about her own. The book is about understanding and accepting yourself, your place in life, others with their mistakes and wrong decisions'.Elena Muzykantova, translator, for Forbes online