Type

Text

Type

Thesis

Advisor

Walker, Lou Ann | Westermann, John | Baker, Odette.

Date

2013-12-01

Keywords

memoir, travel | Fine arts

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/11401/77374

Publisher

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

Format

application/pdf

Abstract

This thesis is a work of creative nonfiction, a collection of stories and episodes from the life of a person who saw many different places over the span of a decade, and ended up very close to where she began. As the story begins, the narrator travels through Europe, expecting to be blissfully detached from her complicated family life. It seems she can only get so far before she invites that family life into the new one she is struggling to create. While she travels, forms true friendships, struggles through misguided romances, she attempts to configure her own identity. It is only in retrospect that the narrator begins to recognize the patterns that formed in her life, the repeating dramas that make it clear she needs to accept the people in her life for who they are and move forward. | 166 pages

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