"By turns philosophical and playful, lyrical and earthy, [i]Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), swoops, leaps, dives and soars, reimagining a turbulent point in American history through a cockeyed contemporary lens . . . The finest work yet from this gifted writer."—[i]The New York Times"Thrilling. . . . A masterpiece . . . A story that engages the deepest possible issues in the most gripping possible ways."—[i]New YorkOffered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must choose whether to leave the woman and people he loves for what may be another empty promise. As his decision brings him face to face with a nation at war with itself, the ones Hero left behind debate whether to escape or wait for his return, only to discover that for Hero, freedom may have come at a great spiritual cost. A devastatingly beautiful dramatic work, [i]Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3) is the opening trilogy of a projected nine-play cycle that will ultimately take us into the present.[b]Suzan-Lori Parks became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play [i]Topdog/Underdog in 2002. Her other plays include [i]The Book of Grace, [i]In the Blood, [i]Venus, [i]The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, [i]Fucking A, [i]Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom and [i]The America Play. In 2007 her [i]365 Days/365 Plays was produced at more than seven hundred theaters worldwide. Parks is a MacArthur Fellow and the Master Writer Chair at the Public Theater.
