Transcendent kingdom
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
290 pages ; 20 cm.
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.
Summary
"Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and 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."--Back cover.
Call Number
BOOK CLUB / GYASI
Publication Date
2020-2021
Language
English
ISBN
9781984899767
Transcendent kingdom
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
261 pages ; 25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2020]
Summary
"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--
Call Number
FICTION GYASI
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
ISBN
9780525658184 9781984899767
Transcendent kingdom
Author
Format:
Large print
Physical Description
401 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Edition
First large print edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Random House Large Print, [2020]
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 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 Ghanain 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.
Call Number
LARGE PRINT FICTION GYASI
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
ISBN
9780593215333
Transcendent kingdom
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
7 audio discs (8 hr., 30 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Unabridged.
Production / Publication Information
[New York] : Random House Audio, [2020].
Summary
Gifty, a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at Stanford University School of Medicine, 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.
Call Number
CD FICTION GYASI
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
ISBN
9780593215302
Transcendent kingdom
Author
Format:
Sound recording
Physical Description
1 audio media player (approximately 8 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Production / Publication Information
Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2020]
Summary
"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."--
Call Number
MWF-PLAY F GYASI
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
ISBN
9781662260995
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