Transcendent Kingdom: A novel (A Read with Jenna Pick)
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE
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 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.
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 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.
More Copies In Prospector
Loading Prospector Copies...
More Details
ISBN:
9780525658191
Reviews from GoodReads
Loading GoodReads Reviews.
Staff View
Grouping Information
Grouped Work ID | 760c7ac0-0d74-ef67-be3f-5d7d260ca735 |
---|---|
Grouping Title | transcendent kingdom a novel a read with jenna pick |
Grouping Author | yaa gyasi |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2024-05-02 01:34:39AM |
Last Indexed | 2024-05-02 02:57:33AM |
Solr Fields
accelerated_reader_point_value
0
accelerated_reader_reading_level
0
author
Gyasi, Yaa
author_display
Gyasi, Yaa
detailed_location_broomfield
Online OverDrive Collection
display_description
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE
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 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.
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 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.
format_broomfield
eBook
format_category_broomfield
eBook
id
760c7ac0-0d74-ef67-be3f-5d7d260ca735
isbn
9780525658191
last_indexed
2024-05-02T08:57:33.576Z
lexile_score
-1
literary_form
Fiction
literary_form_full
Fiction
local_callnumber_broomfield
Online OverDrive
owning_library_broomfield
Broomfield Online
owning_location_broomfield
Online OverDrive Collection
primary_isbn
9780525658191
publishDate
2020
publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
recordtype
grouped_work
title_display
Transcendent Kingdom A novel (A Read with Jenna Pick)
title_full
Transcendent Kingdom A novel (A Read with Jenna Pick)
title_short
Transcendent Kingdom
title_sub
A novel (A Read with Jenna Pick)
topic_facet
African American Fiction
Fiction
Literature
Fiction
Literature
Solr Details Tables
item_details
Bib Id | Item Id | Shelf Loc | Call Num | Format | Format Category | Num Copies | Is Order Item | Is eContent | eContent Source | eContent URL | Detailed Status | Last Checkin | Location |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
overdrive:faeb5814-4fa1-4be7-9132-07357a8b497a | -1 | Online OverDrive Collection | Online OverDrive | eBook | eBook | 1 | false | true | OverDrive | Checked Out | |||
overdrive:faeb5814-4fa1-4be7-9132-07357a8b497a | 3 | Online OverDrive Collection | Online OverDrive | eBook | eBook | 0 | false | true | OverDrive | Checked Out | |||
overdrive:faeb5814-4fa1-4be7-9132-07357a8b497a | 11 | Online OverDrive Collection | Online OverDrive | eBook | eBook | 0 | false | true | OverDrive | Checked Out | |||
overdrive:faeb5814-4fa1-4be7-9132-07357a8b497a | 2 | Online OverDrive Collection | Online OverDrive | eBook | eBook | 0 | false | true | OverDrive | Checked Out | |||
overdrive:faeb5814-4fa1-4be7-9132-07357a8b497a | 10 | Online OverDrive Collection | Online OverDrive | eBook | eBook | 0 | false | true | OverDrive | Checked Out | |||
overdrive:faeb5814-4fa1-4be7-9132-07357a8b497a | 1 | Online OverDrive Collection | Online OverDrive | eBook | eBook | 0 | false | true | OverDrive | Checked Out | |||
overdrive:faeb5814-4fa1-4be7-9132-07357a8b497a | 8 | Online OverDrive Collection | Online OverDrive | eBook | eBook | 0 | false | true | OverDrive | Checked Out |
record_details
Bib Id | Format | Format Category | Edition | Language | Publisher | Publication Date | Physical Description | Abridged |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
overdrive:faeb5814-4fa1-4be7-9132-07357a8b497a | eBook | eBook | English | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | 2020 |
scoping_details_broomfield
Bib Id | Item Id | Grouped Status | Status | Locally Owned | Available | Holdable | Bookable | In Library Use Only | Library Owned | Holdable PTypes | Bookable PTypes | Local Url |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
overdrive:faeb5814-4fa1-4be7-9132-07357a8b497a | -1 | Checked Out | Checked Out | false | false | true | false | false | false | |||
overdrive:faeb5814-4fa1-4be7-9132-07357a8b497a | 3 | Checked Out | Checked Out | false | false | true | false | false | true |