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2020

Title:	Transcendent kingdom / Yaa Gyasi.
Author:	Gyasi, Yaa, author.
Format:	Book
Edition:	First edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Description:	261 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary:	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.
Subjects:	Women medical students -- Fiction. Ghanaians -- Fiction. Grief -- Fiction. Faith -- Fiction. Mothers -- Fiction. Mentally ill -- Fiction. Families -- Fiction. Psychiatry -- Fiction. Research -- Fiction. Brothers -- Death -- Fiction. California -- Fiction.
Genre:	Psychological fiction.
Notes:	"A novel"--Jacket. "Read with Jenna"--Jacket. "This is a Borzoi book"--Copyright page.
ISBN:	9780525658184 9781984899767 1984899767
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YAA GYASI was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. Her debut novel, Homegoing, won her the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for best first book, the PEN/Hemingway Award for a first book of fiction, the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” honors for 2016, and the American Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn. - (Random House, Inc.)

Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. Her debut novel, Homegoing, won her the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for best first book, the PEN/Hemingway Award for a first book of fiction, the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” honors for 2016, and the American Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn. - (Random House, Inc.)

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