An American Family Finding Its PURPOSE — Review
9 / 10
With its dynastic family headed by a patriarch who finds a late-in-life distaste for mendacity, Jacobs-Jenkins seems to be not just riffing on Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but grounding it at a fascinating historical crossroads for Black Americans; a sort of impasse between a modern sense that the storied Civil Rights era’s respectability has badly ossified and a contemporary moral anarchy during which 'young people these days,' as Solomon points out, are nevertheless 'too obsessed with being history, making history.'
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