Fringe Review: ‘The Light Bringer’ is an illuminating immigration story

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Fringe Review: ‘The Light Bringer’ is an illuminating immigration story

Must see Few memoirs in monologue prove as deeply absorbing as “The Light Bringer,” Laila Lee’s chronicle of her family’s emigration from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to Florida. It’s a grippingly-told tale of a clash between cultural and religious traditions and the process of “Americanization” she and her sisters experience. We drift in and out of a dark situation in which a tragedy has clearly occurred, offering a specter of unease amid Lee’s storie…