Other Desert Cities (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802145659)

In OTHER DESERT CITIES, Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs to visit her parents after a six-year absence. A once-promising novelist, she announces to her family the imminent publication of a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family's history - a wound that her parents don't want reopened.

Brooke has come home to draw a line in the sand and is daring her family to cross it. Her brother won't play her game; her aunt knows way too much, and her parents fall into all their old routines as they plead with her to keep their story quiet. In this family, secrets are currency and everyone is rich.

In simplest terms, the play is about a girl who comes home to the desert with a story about where she is from, who her people really are, what she thinks they really are. Her parents represent an Establishment that she feels has betrayed this country. She goes to war with them, and blood is spilled.


Author: Jon Robin Baitz
ISBN-10: 0802145655
ISBN-13: 9780802145659
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 11/29/2011
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.30d