Guardians & Saints

<p>We're born unfinished in need of everything-love food attention care. The linked stories in <em>Guardians & Saints</em> explore the ways in which modern orphans fail to thrive. A girl loses her mother only to re-find her in altered form in a grim institutional afterlife. A group of friends spins helplessly around the death of a beloved teacher when his selfless pedagogy is called into question. Faced with the incapacity of those they depend on Diane Josefowicz's characters appeal with varying degrees of success to stand-ins: teachers mentors therapists guardians and occasionally saints. </p>