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Lidless / Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig ; foreword by David Hare.

Title
Lidless / Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig ; foreword by David Hare.
Author
Cowhig, Frances Ya-Chu, 1983-
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors
Hare, David, 1947-
Description
xvi, 78 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
It’s been fifteen years since Guantánamo, fifteen years since Bashir last saw his U.S. Army interrogator, Alice. Bashir is now dying of a disease of the liver, an organ that he believes is the home of the soul. He tracks down Alice in Texas and demands that she donate half her liver as restitution for the damage wrought during her interrogations. But Alice doesn’t remember Bashir; a PTSD pill trial she participated in while in the army has left her without any memory of her time there. It is only when her inquisitive fourteen-year-old daughter begins her own investigation that the fragile peace of mind that Alice’s drug-induced oblivion enabled begins to falter. Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s powerful drama asks important and difficult questions: Is guilt a necessary form of moral reckoning, or is it an obstacle to be overcome? Will the price of our national political amnesia be paid only by the next generation -- the daughters and sons who were never there?
Series Statement
Yale drama series
Uniform Title
Yale drama series
Subject
  • Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp > Drama
  • Military interrogation > United States > Drama
  • Torture > United States > Drama
Genre/Form
Drama
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780300160307 (alk. paper)
  • 0300160305 (alk. paper)
  • 9780300169423 (hbk.)
  • 0300169426 (hbk.)
LCCN
^^2010008907
OCLC
  • 553365089
  • SCSB-11387044
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library