![]() And, as in Angels, that thing seems to be hope In Muse of Nightmares, Taylor completes the story she began in Strange the Dreamer. Like Kushner, Taylor seems to have tapped into something that people people in America especially desperately need to hear. Her high-fantasy epic Strange the Dreamer (2017) was a 2018 Printz Honor Book, despite the fact that this kind of genre fiction is often overlooked during awards seasons. ![]() ![]() Laini Taylor is no stranger to awards herself or, for that matter, to angels. It's a six-hour production that seems like it may be difficult for audiences to grasp, but it first opened in 1993 to critical acclaim (part one, Millennium Approaches, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama) and the current incarnation claimed a Tony for best revival. Angels in America features a strange overlap of harsh reality and blistering fantasy: during the height of the AIDS crisis, a man is visited by, and eventually visits, a near-unbelievable angel. I don't know if it's not braver to die, but I recognize the habit the addiction to being alive. ![]() Death usually has to take life away, he says. *Starred Review* Near the end of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, the revival of which just closed on Broadway, Prior Walter, a man living with AIDS near the turn of the millennium, confronts a literal angel about his own refusal to die. ![]()
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