God Said This (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300243635)

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."

Author: Leah Nanako Winkler
ISBN-10: 0300243634
ISBN-13: 9780300243635
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2019
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.30w x 0.40d