God said this / Leah Nanako Winkler ; foreword by Ayad Akhtar.
The 2018 winner of the Yale Drama Series competition is a riveting exploration of family and death Set in Kentucky, this compelling drama centers around a Japanese-American family reunited as their matriarch undergoes cancer treatment. The father, James, is a recovering alcoholic seeking redemption, and the two daughters are struggling to overcome their differences--Sophie is an ardent born-again Christian, while Hiro lives a single's life in New York City. John, an old high school classmate of Hiro's who is now a single dad, worries about leaving a legacy for his son. Wry and bittersweet, God Said This vividly captures the complexities of a familial reconciliation in the throes of crisis and looks deeply at the meaning of family--Japanese, Southern, and otherwise. This is the first Yale Drama Series winner chosen by Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar, who describes the play as conveying "a deeply felt sense of the universal--of the perfection of our parents' flawed love for each other and for us; for the ways in which the approach of death can order the meaning of a human life."
Record details
- ISBN: 9780300249217
- ISBN: 0300249217
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 98 pages)
- Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Characters -- Prologue -- Act 1 -- Act 2 |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 12, 2019). |
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Subject: | Japanese American families > Kentucky > Drama. Parent and child > Kentucky > Drama. |
Genre: | Domestic drama. Drama. Domestic drama. |