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Close Quarters: Part One

Plank, Carly Ann
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9720-5544
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1524497585512082

Abstract Details

2018, Master of Fine Arts, Miami University, English.
Close Quarters is a coming of age memoir that spans four years in the life of the protagonist as she witnesses the dissolution of her biological family, orchestrates the assemblage of a new type of family composed of her coworkers, and discovers her sexuality after falling in love in the kitchen of a Michigan Wendy’s. Throughout the four years during which she works at Wendy’s, she finds herself repeatedly faced with the same choice: to believe her presence in the lives of the people she cares about makes a difference, or to cut ties with everyone she’s known at Wendy’s in favor of pursuing her dream of moving out of state to attend graduate school. Throughout the journey of the protagonist, Wendy’s serves an extended metaphor for “home.”
TaraShea Nesbit, PhD (Committee Chair)
Brian Roley, MFA, JD (Committee Member)
Margaret Luongo, MFA (Committee Member)
87 p.
Literature
memoir; creative nonfiction; queer memoir; literature; fast food

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  • Plank, C. A. (2018). Close Quarters: Part One [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1524497585512082

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Plank, Carly. Close Quarters: Part One. 2018. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1524497585512082.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Plank, Carly. "Close Quarters: Part One." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1524497585512082

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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