Cost of Living (TCG Edition) [Paperback]

“Immensely haunting… The first of many great things about Martyna Majok’sCost of Living… is the way it slams the door on uplifting stereotypes… Ms. Majok has engineered her plot to lead naturally to moments of intense and complicated pungency… If you don’t find yourself in someone inCost of Living, you’re not looking.” —Jesse Green,New York Times

Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama,Cost of Livingdeftly challenges the typical perceptions of those living with disabilities and delves deep into the ways class, race, nationality, and wealth can create gulfs between people, even as they long for the ability to connect. Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, and his estranged ex-wife, Ani, find themselves unexpectedly reunited after a terrible accident leaves her quadriplegic. John, a brilliant PhD student with cerebral palsy, hires Jess, a first-generation recent graduate who has fallen on desperate times, as his new aide.

By toppling old prejudices, Majok forces us to revisit our easy assumptions about people who really don't want to be called differently abled and caregivers who could use a little love themselves. A Pulitzer Prize-winning play that powerfully explores the realities of living with physical disabilities.Martyna Majok’s other plays includeIronbound,QueensandSanctuary City. She is the recipient of a Lucille Lortel Award, Lilly Award, Helen Hayes Award, Lanford Wilson Prize, Greenfield Prize, Jean Kennedy Smith Award, two Jane Chambers Awards, NYTW’s 2050 Fellowship, NNPN Smith Prize for Political Playwriting, and The Merage Foundation Fellowship for The American Dream. Majok was the 2015–2016 PoNY Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center and is a 2018–2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. The characters, dialogue and situations resonal£)