A college student's life is given meaning when he chooses to sponsor Elias, a Salvadoran refugee, as a class project. When Elias arrives, his hosts Sander and his family learn what it means and feels to be a refugee and how to relate to someone who has endured such intense personal grief. The warmth and humour of the characters invite us to embrace the situation--be at once moved and threatened by it--and to consider how we ourselves would react.

Cast of 2 women and 3 men.

Author: Joan MacLeod
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: 02/18/1997
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.59w x 0.26d
ISBN: 9780889223714
3rd Edition

About the Author

Joan MacLeod
Multiple Betty Mitchell, Chalmer's, Dora and Governor General's Award-winning author Joan MacLeod grew up in North Vancouver.

Now an internationally celebrated star of the world of the theatre, MacLeod developed her finely honed playwriting skills during seven seasons as playwright-in-residence at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, and turned her hand to opera with her libretto for The Secret Garden, which won a Dora Award.

In 1991, her play Amigo's Blue Guitar won the Governor General's Drama Award.