Tongue Of A Bird
by Ellen Mclaughlin

Name: Tongue Of A Bird
Brand: Ellen Mclaughlin
SKU: 9780573627071
Rating: 3.75 (51 reviews)

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Present Day All Women American

Full Length, Drama Characters: 5 female Unit set.

Maxine, a search and rescue pilot, returns in midwinter to her childhood home in the Adirondacks.

There she conducts a search for a girl who, while on a field trip in the mountains, was abducted by a stranger in a black pick up truck.

The search lasts for three days.

Each night Maxine must face the girl's distraught mother, Dessa, and her own grandmother, Zofia, a reclusive Polish refugee.

In sleep, Maxine is prey to nightmares and fragmented memories of a mother who abandoned her in childhood and was lost to insanity.

Cherry Jones starred Off Broadway in this powerful consideration of the notions of loss, motherhood and the vexed yearning for release.

"Emotionally powerful ... and intensely satisfying."

Seattle Times.

"Emotionally powerful...and intensely satisfying."
— Seattle Times

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Dessa mid- to late thirties; Charlotte's mother; tough, without self-pity, and utterly focused	female	—	mid- to late thirties; Charlotte's mother; tough, without self-pity, and utterly focused
Zofia early to mid-seventies; Maxine's grandmother, Evie's mother; a Polish exile, survivor of the 1939 Nazi invasion; visionary, difficult, and wise	female	—	early to mid-seventies; Maxine's grandmother, Evie's mother; a Polish exile, survivor of the 1939 Nazi invasion; visionary, difficult, and wise
Charlotte twelve; Dessa's daughter; canny, bold, and slightly malicious	female	—	twelve; Dessa's daughter; canny, bold, and slightly malicious
Evie roughly Maxine's age; Maxine's dead mother; cool, wry, and lucid	female	—	roughly Maxine's age; Maxine's dead mother; cool, wry, and lucid
Maxine mid- to late thirties; a search and rescue pilot; solitary, ironic, and guarded	—	—	mid- to late thirties; a search and rescue pilot; solitary, ironic, and guarded