
A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2018 In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted...

A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2018 In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted...

A profound and resonant tribute to the power of writing to make meaning in tragic circumstances. This theatrical ritual, adapted from Ruhl's 2018 epistolary book Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship, weaves together poems and letters between...
