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Transcendent Kingdom

Transcendent Kingdom Hardcover - 2020

by Gyasi, Yaa

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New York: Alfred a Knopf, 2020. First printing. A fine copy with slightly stretched front hinge. The unclipped dust jacket is slightly wrinkled and has a touch of edge wear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details

  • Title Transcendent Kingdom
  • Author Gyasi, Yaa
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Alfred a Knopf, New York
  • Date 2020
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 014273
  • ISBN 9780525658184 / 0525658181
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.53 x 5.97 x 1.24 in (24.21 x 15.16 x 3.15 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects California, Grief
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019039844
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.6

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Summary

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.

About the author

YAA GYASI was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. Her debut novel, Homegoing, won her the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for best first book, the PEN/Hemingway Award for a first book of fiction, the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" honors for 2016, and the American Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn.