Age: 35
male
Shamier Anderson is a Canadian film and television actor and music DJ. After starring as Xavier Dolls in the Syfy television series Wynonna Earp for 2 seasons, he pursued roles in American feature films by directors such as Drake Doremus, Brad Furman and Karyn Kusama, among others. He's a graduate in Musical Theatre and Drama from the Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His brother is film and television actor Stephan James.
Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But 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 and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.
