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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"--Provided by publisher.
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. 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.-- adapted from jacket

Author/Creator:

Gyasi, Yaa , author

Contributors:

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Pat Warde Memorial Collection of Southern Letters

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Transcendent kingdom [by Gyasi, Y.]

Subjects:

Gyasi, Yaa — Autographs — Specimens

Women medical students — Fiction

Ghanaians — United States — Fiction

Grief — Fiction

Faith — Fiction

Mentally ill mothers — Fiction

Families — Fiction

Psychiatry — Research — Fiction

Depressed persons — Fiction

Brothers — Death — Fiction

California — Fiction

Autographs

Women medical students

Ghanaians

Grief

Faith

Mentally ill mothers

Families

Psychiatry — Research

Psychiatry

Depressed persons

Brothers — Death

Brothers

United States

Ghana

California

Genres:

Psychological fiction

Domestic fiction

Fiction

Specimens

General Notes:

"Read with Jenna" --Cover.
"This is a Borzoi book."
Purchased by the Pat Warde Endowment; 2023.
Bound as issued, in dull orange paper-covered boards with black paper spine, with silver spine titles. Retains original illustrated dust jacket.
Signed by author on title page, dated 9/9/20.

Physical Description:

261 pages ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

PS3607.Y37 T73 2020

ISBNs:

9781524711771 (paperback)
1524711772 (paperback)
9780525658184 (hardcover)
0525658181 (hardcover)
9781984899767 (paperback)
1984899767 (paperback)
9780593318881 (B&N Book club exclusive edition)
0593318889 (B&N Book club exclusive edition)
9780525658191 (ebook) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2019039844

OCLC Numbers:

1119065931