First Advisor

Gabriel Urza

Date of Award

5-25-2018

Document Type

Closed Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Creative Writing and University Honors

Department

English

Subjects

Bereavement -- Fiction, Death -- Fiction

DOI

10.15760/honors.619

Abstract

A woman moves back to her hometown to try to make sense of the death of a childhood friend, fifty-years later.

This novel excerpt explores the nature of closure and questions its necessity, while also asking about the relationship between nostalgia and reality. It follows a narrator who thinks and speaks in neural pathways that we all think in, who goes on diverging thoughts and who uses connected stories that sometimes seem related, and sometimes don’t, as she tries to discover the meaning behind a traumatic childhood event.

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Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/25485

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