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A review by ponch22
Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson
3.0
Halfway through my reading of [a:August Wilson|13944|August Wilson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1321642333p2/13944.jpg]'s Century Cycle (after [b:Ma Rainey's Black Bottom|516792|Ma Rainey's Black Bottom|August Wilson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1439819148l/516792._SY75_.jpg|504726], [b:Jitney|764327|Jitney|August Wilson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348042927l/764327._SY75_.jpg|750403], [b:Fences|539282|Fences (The Century Cycle #6)|August Wilson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1481833774l/539282._SY75_.jpg|60745], & [b:The Piano Lesson|4100547|The Piano Lesson|August Wilson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1451284437l/4100547._SY75_.jpg|171424]. [b:Joe Turner's Come and Gone|783918|Joe Turner's Come and Gone|August Wilson|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1400863511l/783918._SX50_.jpg|60728] is set in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse in the 1910s and centers around Seth & Bertha, who run the house, and Herald & Zonia Loomis, a father & daughter searching for their missing wife & mother.
There are more characters living or traveling through the boardinghouse—everyone is a little lost, but this definitely feels like another play that's better on a stage than on the page (especially with all the music & dancing and the Act I finale where I didn't quite know what was happening with Loomis).
There are more characters living or traveling through the boardinghouse—everyone is a little lost, but this definitely feels like another play that's better on a stage than on the page (especially with all the music & dancing and the Act I finale where I didn't quite know what was happening with Loomis).