Defense Date
2024
Document Type
Thesis
First Advisor
Gretchen Comba
Second Advisor
Clint McCown
Third Advisor
Shelli Fowler
Abstract
Take the Jeans to Lublin is a novel-length work of historical fiction set at the collapse of communism in Poland from 1989 to 1990. Dina Rybczynski-Szpak is a young college student from a large and ferocious Polish American family in rural Vermont. When her grandmother reveals a dark secret about her World War II past and about Dina’s missing mother, Dina embarks on a quest to Poland for answers. Her desire for answers entangles her in the black market denim scene in Lublin, Poland, and as she falls deeper into the chaos of Poland’s economic and political upheaval, she tries harder and harder to answer her questions about her family and herself.
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Is Part Of
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Date of Submission
5-9-2024