DOI
https://doi.org/10.25772/60VE-SW41
Defense Date
2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Department
English
First Advisor
Thomas De Haven
Second Advisor
Dennis Danvers
Third Advisor
Robert Bledsoe
Abstract
A contemporary novel spanning thirteen years in the lives of an Indiana family. A boy enters abusive relationships with men in the belief he does not deserve love, a woman abandons her only son because of her alcoholism, a gay father learns to navigate the line between his personal life and that of being a parent. A story in which a family learns to grow, to mature, to forgive their past mistakes and exorcise the demons that haunt them.
Rights
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Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
5-6-2015