Portraits by Gotanda: in a cavalcade of plays both intimate and epic, the playwright elucidates Asian-American life.(Interview)(Cover story)

An INTRICATE LOT OF UNTETHERED SOULS POPULATE PHILIP KAN GOTANDA'S

After the War. There's the unemployed African-American man and his young daughter, who is being cared for by the sister of her runaway mother, and the taxi-hall dancer from Oklahoma with her mentally challenged younger brother. There's the Japanese-American accountant despairing that a woman could ever want him, and a young Russian-Jewish immigrant by way of Yokohama who just might prove him wrong. And there's the ex-jazzman and his would-be sister-in-law who run the boardinghouse where all these waifs have ...

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