Grace & Glorie

by Tom Ziegler

Comedy / 2f / Estelle Parsons and Lucie Arnaz starred on Broadway in this charmer set in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Grace, a feisty 90 year old cancer patient, has checked herself out of the hospital and returned to her beloved homestead cottage to die alone. The volunteer hospice worker who appears with the pain medication Grace willfully left behind is a Harvard MBA recently transplanted to this rural backwater from New York. Glorie is tense, unhappy and guilt ridden, her only child having been killed in an auto accident when she was driving. As she attempts to care for and comfort the cantankerous rustic, this sophisticated urbanite gains new perspectives on values and life's highs and lows.

88 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2011

Reviews

[Preston Scott Blakeley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Alyosha and Ivan but far less psychologically adept and philosophically profound. Though in a modern setting, the dialogue, nevertheless, captures the polarizing tension between traditionalism and modernism, between Christianity and atheism.

[Marianne · Rating 4 out of 5]

With the right cast to bringit to life, this is a beautiful story. I look forward to taking a stab at it in the fall!