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    Whichever of My Parents' Gods Will Take Me

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    Date
    2015
    Author
    Goldstein, Ali
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    Norman, Howard
    Mitchell, Emily
    DRUM DOI
    https://doi.org/10.13016/M28S6B
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    This novella titled Whichever of My Parents' Gods will Take Me is about a young woman named Ruth growing up in a bicultural home in post-World War II Detroit, Michigan as she trains for her first marathon. Told from a first-person lyrical point-of-view, the story seeks to capture Ruth's development as a runner and young woman through her voice and sensory perception. This novella takes the form of a triptych with three discreet sections in Ruth's life - adolescence, young motherhood, and old age - that cohere the life of a woman while putting Ruth's myriad voices in dialogue with one another. This is a story about a young woman obsessed with running at a time where it was both strange and dangerous for a young woman to run alone at dawn - but also about bravery, freedom, and what she saw as she ran through a changing and healing city.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1903/16710
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