Transcendent Kingdom: A novel
by Gyasi, Yaa
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor
- ISBN 10
- 0525658181
- ISBN 13
- 9780525658184
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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Synopsis
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.
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- The Book Cellar (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10844546
- Title
- Transcendent Kingdom: A novel
- Author
- Gyasi, Yaa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0525658181
- ISBN 13
- 9780525658184
- Publisher
- Deckle Edge
- Date Published
- 2020-08-31
- Size
- 6x1x9
- X weight
- 19 oz
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- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...