Book cover art for Father Comes Home from the Wars by Suzan-Lori Parks

Father Comes Home from the Wars

Suzan-Lori Parks

Date of Birth
1963
Date of Death
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Each year faculty and students choose a contemporary work that engages with other, older texts on the Literature Humanities syllabus to address current issues. This year’s selection, the three-part Father Comes Home from the Wars, reimagines Odysseus as an American slave at the time of the Civil War.