Bulrusher

Drama / 3m 3f / Finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in DramaIn 1955 in the redwood country north of San Francisco a multiracial girl grows up in a predominantly white town whose residents pepper their speech with the historical dialect of Boontling. Found floating in a basket on the river as an infant Bulrusher is an orphan with a gift for clairvoyance that makes her feel like a stranger even amongst the strange: the taciturn schoolteacher who adopted her the madam who runs her brothel w