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A review by jessrock
Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz
4.0
I enjoyed this play about a daughter coming home to California to visit her family for the first time in six years. She's a novelist living on Long Island, and her family has been looking forward to reading her new book - until they find out she's written a memoir about her family and especially her older brother, who died by suicide when she was still in school.
Her parents are staunch Republicans and friends of the Reagans; she and her younger brother can't stand their parents' politics. There's both love and antipathy between all four of them, as well as between the mother and her recently sober sister who has come to live with them. I liked that the relationships were complex; you could see the characters struggle between building bridges and burning them.
Her parents are staunch Republicans and friends of the Reagans; she and her younger brother can't stand their parents' politics. There's both love and antipathy between all four of them, as well as between the mother and her recently sober sister who has come to live with them. I liked that the relationships were complex; you could see the characters struggle between building bridges and burning them.