Water By The Spoonful. Water by the Spoonful is a play written by Quiara Alegria Hudes Water by the Spoonful revolves around several characters' struggle with their addiction to crack cocaine
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This motley crew gathers in an online chatroom to help each other stay sober one day at a time, revealing how the most unlikely companions can often best understand. It is preceded by Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue, in which 19-year-old Elliot returns from Iraq with a wound to his leg and grapples with the impact of war and military service on the past three generations of his Puerto Rican family, and followed by The Happiest Song Plays Last, which follows Yaz as she renovates the barrio.
Some are tied together by family, while others are tied through their addictions. Water by the Spoonful (2011) is an American play by Quiara Alegría Hudes and the second part of the Elliot Trilogy The title has a literal manifestation: Odessa followed the directive to give her young children a spoonful of water ritualistically timed in other to stem off the stomach flu, but ultimately cannot keep to the task because her drug addiction exerts too strong a pull.
. The second part of a trilogy, this drama depicts the everyday struggles of several people Some are tied together by family, while others are tied through their addictions.
Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes. Water by the Spoonful is the second piece of Hudes's Elliot trilogy This motley crew gathers in an online chatroom to help each other stay sober one day at a time, revealing how the most unlikely companions can often best understand.