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Half a Dream
Author Info
Christensen, Holly
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Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2010, MFA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
Abstract
My thesis, Half a Dream, a road trip memoir, is framed by a physical journey, driving in the summer of 2007 across the United States in a five-speed Toyota Matrix with my three young sons, then ages 13, 10 and 7. The road trip provides the framework for looping back in time and place to the key emotional experiences that are the real subject of my memoir. In the course of this dual narrative and emotional journey, endings ignite beginnings and even instigate the revisiting of decades-old endings (especially of familial relationships) that reach through time and demand re-evaluation. The results of these re-evaluations sometimes lead, figuratively speaking, to leaving behind people and, at other times, leaving behind old injuries in order to re-create long-held relationships.
Committee
David Giffels, MA (Committee Chair)
Phil Brady, PhD (Committee Member)
Robert Miltner, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
270 p.
Subject Headings
Literature
Keywords
Memoir
;
Road Trip
;
Travel Memoir
;
Children
;
Divorce
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Christensen, H. (2010).
Half a Dream
[Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1291149684
APA Style (7th edition)
Christensen, Holly.
Half a Dream.
2010. Kent State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1291149684.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Christensen, Holly. "Half a Dream." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1291149684
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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