The story of Joan of Arc's mother, a sensible, hard-working, God-fearing peasant woman whose faith is upended as she deals with the baffling journey of her odd and extraordinary daughter.
Our inaugural guest will be El Cerrito resident Debbie Chinn, Managing Director of Anna Deavere Smith's Pipeline Project and author of a forthcoming book about her family’s historical connection to the missionaries of China and of the pioneering impact her family of immigrants has made to advance the fields of research, science, medicine, academia, engineering, arts, humanities, and culinary hospitality in the United States.
What happens when a brilliant lost soul comes to stay in his sister’s basement and refuses to leave? And if the menacing brother-in-law doesn’t approve? In a dog-eat-dog world, these siblings find a haven of sorts in an unfinished basement as they attempt to make sense of the past and negotiate how to move forward into the future.