Funny, furious and profane, “You With the Sad Eyes” finds the TV star facing childhood trauma and reflecting on the limits imposed by illness. By Elisabeth Egan Our columnist on the month’s best new ...

In the 1950s in a small town in Louisiana, two young girls come of age, bound by losing their mothers in infancy. But, as they mature, the best friends’ paths diverge. Vernice, whose mother died, ...