Angels in America | Hannan Porter Pitt

Hannah is Joe's Mormon mother. After her son calls her late at night from a payphone to confess he is a homosexual, she sells her home in Salt Lake City and flies to New York to help him. Her culture shock is traumatic at first, as she encounters the homeless and the eccentric on the streets of New York City, but she summons her inner strength and quickly adjusts to her surroundings. Abandoned by Joe, she takes a job at the Mormon Visitor's Center and tries to help Harper, her daughter-in-law, cope with the crisis.

When Prior wanders into the Center, she thinks his talk about...

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