Corsicana by
In Corsicana, a small city in the heart of Texas, a woman with Down syndrome and her half-brother find themselves unmoored in the wake of their mother’s death. Needing help, Christopher asks Ginny to spend time with a local outsider artist whose outsider status extends beyond art alone: he’s different, or unique, or brilliant or complicated or wrong. In this tender quartet about community and caretaking,...
In Corsicana, a small city in the heart of Texas, a woman with Down syndrome and her half-brother find themselves unmoored in the wake of their mother’s death. Needing help, Christopher asks Ginny to spend time with a local outsider artist whose outsider status extends beyond art alone: he’s different, or unique, or brilliant or complicated or wrong. In this tender quartet about community and caretaking, reality is a consensus not everyone consents to, whether they’re counted among the special, the “special needs,” or the so-called normal. "It’s about small groups. It’s about community. It’s about family. It’s about the dead. It’s about ghosts. It’s about gentle chaos. It’s about contracts of the heart. And the belief that when a part of the self is given away, is surrendered to the needs of a particular time, in a particular place, then community forms. From the ghosts of the parts of ourselves we’ve given away. A new particular body. Born of our own ghosts. I don’t know. It’s about Texas."