THE HUMANS
Sound Theatre Company presents THE HUMANS by Stephen Karam from October 30 to November 22, 2025. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this resource list of books and films to enhance your experience of the show.
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The Humans
The script of THE HUMANS, for your reading pleasure.
Format: Book
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The Ghost at the Table
In this taut psychological drama, three sisters return to their estranged and ailing father's home for Thanksgiving, where they confront deep-rooted family secrets.
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The Lay of the Land
Frank Bascombe faces down the impending Thanksgiving with dread as he grapples with prostate cancer and strained relationships with his grown children.
Format: Book
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Home for the Holidays
In this holiday classic directed by Jodie Foster, dramas and conflicts emerge at a Thanksgiving gathering in Baltimore.
Format: Streaming Video
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The Humans
Directed and adapted by Karam himself, this 2021 film version of THE HUMANS stars Beanie Feldstein as Brigid Blake, Richard Jenkins as Erik Blake, Amy Schumer as Aimee Blake, and Steven Yeun as Richard.
Format: DVD
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I'll Tell You Later
This thoughtful anthology collects essays, short stories and poems by 19 Deaf and hard-of-hearing authors describing their experiences of loneliness and exclusion at mealtime with hearing friends and family.
Format: Book
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The Blessings
The Blessings are a large close-knit Irish Catholic family in the Philadelphia area, whose family bonds are forever altered when John Blessing dies, leaving behind a young widow and two children.
Format: eBook
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Last Night at the Lobster
O’Nan captures the struggles and triumphs of the working class and the ways in which co-workers become family in a novel about the final night of a Red Lobster restaurant in Connecticut.
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Pieces of April
April, the misfit daughter, invites her family to her dilapidated New York apartment for Thanksgiving, possibly the last for her mother who is ill with cancer.
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We Are Not Ourselves
From a working-class Irish upbringing in Queens to six decades as a wife, mother, nursing administrator and caretaker, Eileen Tumulty never gave up on her dreams of a better life.
Format: eAudiobook
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