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Adult Book Discussion at Martindale-Brightwood
Monday, October 02
4:30pm - 5:30pm
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2023-10-02 16:30:00
2023-10-02 17:30:00
America/Indiana/Indianapolis
Adult Book Discussion at Martindale-Brightwood
The book to be discussed is "Transcendent Kingdom" by Yaa Gyasi. Pick up a copy of the book at the library.
Martindale-Brightwood Branch -
The book to be discussed is "Transcendent Kingdom" by Yaa Gyasi. Pick up a copy of the book at the library.
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi is available as a print book, an e-book, a downloadable audiobook, a audiobook CD, and as a large print book in the library's collection.
"Gifty is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford 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 a knee 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."
Martindale-Brightwood Branch
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The Brightwood Branch opened in 1901 as the sixth public library in Indianapolis. It served the Brightwood community at several locations along Station Street, one street west of its current North Sherman Avenue storefront site which opened in 1972. A 1996 renovation at this location doubled the size of the branch to 5,400 square feet. In 2020, a brand-new branch building, across the street from the previous branch, was completed and re-named as the Martindale-Brightwood Branch.