The third and final book in Percy’s innovative and acclaimed Comet Cycle, The Sky Vault follows the aftermath of an airplane that goes missing over Fairbanks, Alaska, in the wake of the comet, and a teenager’s search for answers about his father's final moments aboard the flight.
A collection of short stories told in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages, exploring desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. Five Tuesdays in Winter showcases Lily King’s spare and stunning prose and gift for creating lasting and treasured characters.
Mutiny: a rebellion, a subversion, an onslaught. In poems that rebuke classical mythos and western canonical figures, and embrace Afro-Diasporanfolk and spiritual imagery, Phillip B. Williams conjures the hell of being erased, exploited, and ill-imagined, and honors the transformative power of anger and the clarity that comes from allowing that anger to burn clean.
Yasmin, a young Syrian refugee, spends her days tethered to an electric power strip in a Greek refugee camp. Once a middle-class student in Aleppo whose life was dictated by the expectations of men, her sheltered existence has been shattered by a brutal civil war. In the war-torn world of the refugee camp, Yasmin finds that she must betray everything she once knew and valued in order to survive.
Cast: Peter Ganim, Darius Homayoun, Ali Lopez-Sohaili, and Dina Shihabi; Director: Tyne Rafaeli
In the fall of 2001 the air has a marked change in New York City. Dana—a naïve yet self-righteous art critic—and her sports-loving partner Kerri struggle to reconnect through its weight. This freshly weighted air, by contrast, provides new life for Naomi—an iconic visual artist—who, after years in the business, finally experiences financial success just as a debilitating disease threatens both that success and her legacy. When Dana questions Naomi’s artistic integrity, the stage is set for a sexy, emotional, and intellectual game of football between critic and artist. Secrets are revealed, beliefs are shattered, hearts are broken, and art is made in this fast-paced drama that explores loss and sacrifice.
Director: Melissa Crespo
With the constant buzz of American drones above the Pakistani countryside, a young woman fears for the safety and sanity of her family. Thousands of miles away, the drone pilot in Nevada tasked with watching her family becomes increasingly removed from his own life. Against the Hillside examines the cost of wars fought at distance on both the observer and the observed.
Cast: Rajesh Bose, Mohit Gautam, Caroline Hewitt, Mahira Kakkar, Jack Mikesell, Sammy Pignalosa, Babak Tafti, John Wernke, and Avery Whitted; Director: William Carden
A young gay man and his family are forced to grapple with their dark past on the morning of a catastrophic storm.
The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth recording? Osman’s speakers, who are almost always women, assert and reassert in an attempt to establish authority, often through persistent questioning. Specters of race, displacement, and colonialism are often present in her work, providing momentum for speakers to reach beyond their primary, apparent dimensions and better communicate. The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony is about love and longing, divorce, distilled desire, and all the ways we injure ourselves and one another.
At the height of her career, Sarah Ruhl had just survived a high-risk pregnancy when she discovered the left side of her face completely paralyzed. In a series of piercing, witty, and lucid meditations, Ruhl chronicles her journey as a patient, wife, mother, and artist. She explores the struggle of a body yearning to match its inner landscape, postpartum depression, marriage, being a playwright and working mom to three tiny children, and the desire for a resilient spiritual life in the face of illness.
By turns comic and harrowing, a tour-de-force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, Crossroads is the first volume of a trilogy, A Key to All Mythologies, that will span three generations and trace the inner life of our culture through the present day. Set in a historical moment of moral crisis, and reaching back to the early twentieth century, Crossroads serves as a foundation for a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the Hildebrandt family navigates the political, intellectual, and social crosscurrents of the past fifty years.
