The Best We Could (a family tragedy)

In this funny, wise, and heartbreaking debut from Emily Feldman, a daughter’s road trip with her father becomes a theatrical journey across more than just state lines. Though 36-year old Ella has nearly given up on life, she agrees to accompany her father Lou on a long-distance trip to adopt a rescue dog. Guided by a narrator called Maps and interspersed with memories and phone calls from Ella's mother, Peg, their journey reveals hard truths as their pasts slowly rise to the surface.

Searingly insightful... Cosmic questions that lurk beneath everyday routines seem to creep in from the periphery... the loudest being, is this really all there is to life? There is more to Feldman’s layered investigation of consumer capitalism, kinship and gendered power imbalances, which she brings to light throughout The Best We Could in the manner of family secrets: There’s no escaping the ones you love, or the truth.” – The New York Times