Gus Marcantonio, a retired longshoreman, summons his adult children home to the family’s Brooklyn brownstone to discuss his recent decision to commit suicide. With his trademark mix of soaring intel­lect, searing emotion, and biting wit, Kushner unfurls an epic tale of revolu­tion, radicalism, family, love, sex, politics, real estate, unions, and debts both unpaid and unpayable.