Transcendent kingdom / Yaa Gyasi.
Publication details: London : Viking/Penguin Books, 2020.Edition: First editionDescription: 261 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780241433386 (paperback)
- Domestic fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Ghanaian Americans -- Fiction
- Doctoral students -- Fiction
- Bookclub collection
- Brothers -- Death
- Depressed persons
- Faith
- Families
- Ghanaians
- Grief
- Mentally ill mothers
- Psychiatry -- Research
- Women medical students
- Opioid abuse -- Fiction
- Women medical students -- Fiction
- Ghanaians -- United States -- Fiction
- Faith -- Fiction
- Mentally ill mothers -- Fiction
- Psychiatry -- Research -- Fiction
- Brothers -- Death -- Fiction
- Grief -- Fiction
- Depressed persons -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- California
- United States
- California -- Fiction
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- PS3607.Y37 T73 2020
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | GYA | Available | 062520 |
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"This is a Borzoi book."
Gifty is the younger child in a family of four who have emigrated from Ghana to the American South. While her gorgeous brother is a sports hero, her father longs to return home and her mother is desperate to hold this family of four together. When Gifty's brother's glorious success on the basketball court falters, addiction strikes and the mother turns inward, and to religion, to find a cure. Each one of the characters tries to find a way to heal the heartbreak- for the mother it is God, for Gifty's father it is escape and for Gifty, our narrator - it is science. But can family love survive when the family itself feels like it is on the edge of disappearing?