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Author Winkler, Leah Nanako, author.

Title God said this / Leah Nanako Winkler ; foreword by Ayad Akhtar.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 98 pages)
Women
Kentuckians
Japanese Americans
Series The Yale drama series
Yale drama series.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Characters -- Prologue -- Act 1 -- Act 2
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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Subject Japanese American families -- Kentucky -- Drama.
Parent and child -- Kentucky -- Drama.
DRAMA -- American -- General.
Parent and child.
Japanese American families.
Kentucky.
Genre/Form Domestic drama.
Drama.
Domestic drama.
Added Author Akhtar, Ayad, writer of foreword.
Other Form: Print version: Winkler, Leah Nanako. God said this. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019] 9780300243635 (DLC) 2019932307 (OCoLC)1111116742
ISBN 9780300249217 (electronic book)
0300249217 (electronic book)
9780300243635
0300243634