Joanna Marple

Type

Text

Type

Thesis

Advisor

McCormick, Patricia | Walton Hamilton, Emma | Grover, Lorie Ann.

Date

2015-05-01

Keywords

Literature

Department

Department of Creative Writing and Literature.

Language

en_US

Source

This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.

Identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77340

Publisher

The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.

Format

application/pdf

Abstract

Moontide is a coming-of-age young adult “road†story set in the south, which follows almost seventeen-year-old Jesse, a bi-racial, semi-orphaned outsider who must protect his younger half-siblings (twins) in the face of his step-father’s abuse and their meth-addicted mother’s overdose. Determined not to be separated from his siblings and placed once again in foster care, Jesse kidnaps the twins and embarks on a journey as emotional as it is physical, in search of his birth father, a Creole musician in New Orleans. Although his New Orleans relatives embrace him completely, Jesse must ultimately come to a new understanding of the meaning of family, and to embrace his place in the world, part of which requires traveling back to Virginia to confront the demons he left behind. | 242 pages

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