Transcendent Kingdom A novel

Yaa Gyasi, Bahni Turpin

eAudio - 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZEYaa 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. Bu...t 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...

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English
Main Authors
Yaa Gyasi, Bahni Turpin
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MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size250 GB
Parts8
ISBN9780593215326
Release Date9/1/2020
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size250 GB
ISBN9780593215326
Release Date9/1/2020