The Little Flower of East Orange A Play

by Guirgis, Stephen Adly

• ISBN13: 9780865479012
• ISBN10: 0865479011
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-03
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

When Therese Marie arrives in the emergency room of a small hospital in the Bronx, suffering from hypothermia and in shock, no one there knows her story. To the doctors and nurses, she is just another abandoned elderly woman who can't even tell them her name. But Therese Marie's dementia is not all that it seems. And when her prodigal son, Danny, returns to New York, Therese Marie must fight to maintain her dignity in light of her son's insistence on confronting the ugly secrets of their past. In this unconventional family drama, Stephen Adly Guirgis gives us a mother and son who must face a long family legacy of abuse in order to find the true meaning of grace.

Author Biography

Stephen Adly Guirgis is the author of Our Lady of 121st Street, Jesus Hopped the A Train, In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings, and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, all published by Faber. He lives in New York City.

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“Exudes the heat of true emotional conviction.”—Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“Gets under your skin in a way that tidier dramas don’t often manage.”—Frank Schenk, New York Post

“Searing . . . Guirgis has never had a problem locating pain’s funny bone.”—Rob Kendt, Newsday

“Guirgis’s raw talent—his ability to flat-out Write—remains as luminous as ever.”—Jeremy McCarter, New York

“Deeply felt and at times startling in its bruising intimacy.”—David Rooney, Variety