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Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
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Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE 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.
Yaa Gyasi grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, after being born in Ghana. She graduated from Stanford University with a BA in English and an MFA from Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was awarded a Dean's Graduate Research Scholarship. She currently resides in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780525658184 |
| ISBN 10 | 0525658181 |
| Title | Transcendent Kingdom |
| Author | Yaa Gyasi |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Year published | 2020-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Women's Prize for Fiction 2021, Long-listed for PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2021 |
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