Lidless : Yale University Press : 9780300160307 : 0300160305 : 07 Sep 2010 : The third winner of the Yale Drama Series competition for emerging playwrights?a haunting and provocative imagining of the reunion, years later, of a Guantánamo detainee and the female interrogator who tortured him It's been fifteen years since Guantánamo, fifteen years since Bashir last saw his U.S. Army interrogator, Alice. Bashir is now dying of a disease of the liver, an organ that he believes is the home of the soul. He tracks down Alice in Texas and demands that she donate half her liver as restitution for the damage wrought during her interrogations. But Alice doesn't remember Bashir; a PTSD pill trial she participated in while in the army has left her without any memory of her time there. It is only when her inquisitive fourteen-year-old daughter begins her own investigation that the fragile peace of mind that Alice's drug-induced oblivion enabled begins to falter. Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's powerful d