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By Gyasi, Yaa2017., Vintage Books Call No: Historical FIC Gyasi Edition: First Vintage Books edition. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: When Ghanian half-sisters Effia and Esi are separated, Effia marries a wealthy Englishman and Esi is sold into American slavery. Over centuries of warfare in Ghana and the Civil War in the U.S., the sisters and their descendants weave a complex family story of love, captivity, and fate.
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By Gyasi, Yaa2020., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: REALISTIC F GYA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "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"--From the publisher's web site.
