"Immensely haunting... The first of many great things about Martyna
Majok's Cost of Living... is the way it slams the door on uplifting
stereotypes... Ms. Majok has engineered her plot to lead naturally to
moments of intense and complicated pungency... If you don't find
yourself in someone in Cost of Living, you're not looking." --Jesse
Green, New York Times
Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Cost of Living deftly
challenges the typical perceptions of those living with disabilities and
delves deep into the ways class, race, nationality, and wealth can
create gulfs between people, even as they long for the ability to
connect. Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, and his estranged ex-wife,
Ani, find themselves unexpectedly reunited after a terrible accident
leaves her quadriplegic. John, a brilliant PhD student with cerebral
palsy, hires Jess, a first-generation recent graduate who has fallen on
desperate times, as his new aide.