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"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking...

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Main Author: Gyasi, Yaa (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Women medical students > Fiction.
Ghanaians > United States > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
Faith > Fiction.
Mentally ill mothers > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Psychiatry > Research > Fiction.
Brothers > Death > Fiction.
California > Fiction.
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Summary:"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--
Item Description:"This is a Borzoi book."
Physical Description:261 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9780525658184
0525658181
Author Notes:Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and grew up in Huntsville, Alabama. She is a graduate of Stanford University with a BA in English and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her debut novel, The Homegoing, became a New York Times best seller. In 2016, she was selected as one of the U.S. National Book Foundation's 'five under 35' new writers to watch.

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