02824cam a2200325 4500 587311658 TxAuBib 20220722120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593215326 059321532X 32b11890-de9d-4ca8-a126-2efdeec60237 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5055990 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Gyasi, Yaa. Transcendent Kingdom [Libby] : A novel. Books on Tape, 2020. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 239MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 238MB. Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. HTML:<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE<br /> Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller <i>Homegoing</i> is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.</b><br /> 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.<br /> <i>Transcendent Kingdom</i> is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief<b>—</b>a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-21 20:00:02. Turpin, Bahni. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/5055990-TranscendentKingdom.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=32b11890-de9d-4ca8-a126-2efdeec60237&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/5055990-TranscendentKingdom.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=32b11890-de9d-4ca8-a126-2efdeec60237&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)