TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gyasi,Yaa
TI  - Transcendent kingdom
SN  - 9780241433386
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Viking
KW  - Women medical students
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Ghanaians
KW  - United States
KW  - Grief
KW  - Faith
KW  - Mentally ill mothers
KW  - Families
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Research
KW  - Depressed persons
KW  - Brothers
KW  - Death
KW  - California
N2  - As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty dreamed of slips away. Years later, desperate to understand the opioid addiction that destroyed her brother's life, she turns to science for answers. But when her mother comes to stay, Gifty soon learns that the roots of their tangled traumas reach farther than she ever thought. Tracing her family's story through continents and generations will take her deep into the dark heart of modern America
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