Seattle Rep's THE GREAT MOMENT: Beyond the Theatre
Seattle Repertory Theatre presents THE GREAT MOMENT by Anna Ziegler from October 11 to November 17, 2019. Librarians at the Seattle Public Library created this resource list of books and films to enhance your experience of the show.
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Happy Family
A former cop-turned-disgruntled academic struggles to come to terms with her adoptive and biological families as she attempts to become pregnant herself.
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Transitions
A guide to coping with change, Transitions describes approaches for handling major transitions, and provides advice designed to move into a hopeful, meaningful, and productive future.
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Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
A New Yorker cartoonist depicts the final years of her aging parents’ lives in a graphic memoir that reflects an adult child’s struggles with caregiver decisions and challenges.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul
In this collection of stories about embarrassing, annoying and dysfunctional families, contributors humorously and lovingly share those special moments that have become cherished memories.
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The Descendants
An indifferent husband and father examines his past and embraces his future after his wife suffers an accident, leading to re-engaging with his daughters while making decisions about a family legacy.
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Blue Nights
Didion's lyrical memoir of her daughter Quintana Roo's long illness and death just twenty months after her husband's fatal heart attack is both devastating and moving.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
In this wrenching memoir, Didion describes her attempts to cope with the sudden death of her husband shortly after their daughter was placed into an induced coma to help her survive complications after pneumonia.
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They Left Us Everything
A memoir of navigating family, aging, and death offers an intimate look at familial and especially mother-daughter connections in an affirmation of human relationships and the cycle of life itself.
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Your Dad Stole My Rake and Other Family Dilemmas
This humorous book uncovers the most hysterical and surprisingly meaningful aspects of our lives as it explores how we deal with our inescapable relatives and their bizarre behavior.
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Making Toast
After his adult daughter's sudden death, the author and his wife moved in with their son-in-law and grandchildren, becoming re-accustomed to small children while helping the family to grieve and get on with life.
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