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God said this

Winkler, Leah Nanako (author.). Akhtar, Ayad, (writer of foreword.).

Summary: 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."

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  • ISBN: 0300249217
  • ISBN: 9780300249217
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 98 pages)
    remote
  • Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]

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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).
Subject: Japanese American families -- Kentucky -- Drama
Parent and child -- Kentucky -- Drama
Genre: Domestic drama.
Drama.
Domestic drama.

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