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Gifty, a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at Stanford University School of Medicine, 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 fo...

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Main Author: Gyasi, Yaa (Author)
Other Authors: Turpin, Bahni (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Random House Audio, [2020].
Edition:Unabridged.
Subjects:
Women medical students > Fiction.
Ghanaians > United States > Fiction.
Grief > Fiction.
Faith > Fiction.
Mentally ill mothers > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Psychiatry > Research > Fiction.
Depressed persons > Fiction.
Brothers > Death > Fiction.
California > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Audiobooks.
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Summary:Gifty, a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at Stanford University School of Medicine, 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.
Item Description:Title from disc surface.
Compact discs.
Physical Description:7 audio discs (8 hr., 30 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time:08:30:00
ISBN:9780593215302
0593215303
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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