Transcendent kingdom : a novel

Gyasi, Yaa (author.). Turpin, Bahni, (narrator.).

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 sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780593215319
ISBN: 0593215311
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (1 sound file (08 hr., 43 min., 58 sec.)) : digital
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: [New York] : Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, [2020]

Content descriptions

Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Bahni Turpin.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed September 9, 2020).