"Paradise" by Laura Maria Censabella

MTC puts on a performance like no other with "Paradise"! A story of Yasmeen Al-Hamadi, a Muslim, Yemeni American senior at a struggling inner-city Bronx high school. Dr. Guy Royston is her disaffected science teacher, a former Evangelical with a mysterious past. An unlikely research team, togetrher they embark on a neurological study, leading to stormy conflicts over love, faith, and culture.