Crumbs from the Table of Joy

Crumbs from the Table of Joy

by Lynn Nottage

This story by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright addresses issues of grief, racism, and the politics of immigration in a moving coming-of-age story. In 1950, a widowed father transplants his two young daughters out of the deep South to Brooklyn, New York in his search for salvation.The girls are exposed to the escalating tension between a conservative father and a free-spirited Aunt. In the end, young Ernestine finds the courage to seek out her dreams in this inspiring tale.