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Transcendent Kingdom / Yaa Gyasi.

Gyasi, Yaa, (author.). Playaway Digital Audio. (Added Author). Findaway World, LLC. (Added Author).

Summary:
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 sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University 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 an ankle 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781662260995 :
  • Physical Description: 1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
  • Publisher: Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2020]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Title from Playaway label.
Release date supplied by publisher.
Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.
One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.
Subject: Women medical students > Fiction.
Ghanaians > United States > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
Faith > Fiction.
Mentally ill mothers > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Psychiatry > Research > Fiction.
Depressed persons > Fiction.
Brothers > Death > Fiction.
California > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Abington Community Library TALKING BOOKS GYASI (PA) (Text) 50687011735290 Adult Audio Available -
Parkland Community Library PA F GYA (Text) 34422006213074 Playaway Available -
Barrett Paradise Friendly Library Play F Gya (Text) 37171000050944 Playaway Available -


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