Books by Suzan-Lori Parks

An unflinching look at race in the twenty-first century.Thirty-somethings Leo, Misha, Ralph and Dawn have been inseparable since college. Their connection with each other is stronger than anything else - until Leo is assaulted by the police in a racially motivated incident, and he brings to the group an extreme proposition...

"A woman tries to feed her husband a fried drumstick. Dragons roam a flat earth. The last black man in the whole entire world dies again. And again. Careening through memory and language, Parks explores and explodes archetypes of Black America with piercing insight and raucous comedy. A riotous theatrical even, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World hums with the heartbeat of improvisational jazz"--Page [4] of cover.

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the reality of their future.

A collection of critically acclaimed plays by contemporary American writersOf interest to students of drama and American studies

An epic dramatic trilogy set during the American Civil War, by one of America's leading playwrights.

Parks' latest and most controversial work.

A collection of plays and essays by one of America's premier playwrights. Includes the essays "Possession," "from Elements of Style," and "An Equation for Black People Onstage," and the plays Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, Betting on Dust Commander, Pickling, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Devotees in the Garden of Love, and The America Play.