Absent Without Leave
| dc.contributor.advisor | Norman, Howard | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Yetman, Shanna | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Creative Writing | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-02-07T07:19:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-02-07T07:19:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | How do you deal with the biology you are born with; the parents you are given; the religion that is handed to you; and the ideologies you inherit? Absent Without Leave is a short story collection that explores the anxiety that erupts when life's natural order fails. The characters in these stories all grapple with someone or something missing in their lives: parents who have chosen work over children, mothers who can't mother, children that never were, and religious beliefs that no longer ring true. There is Olivia Turnbull, a mother, who wonders if her biology has failed her because she cannot bond with her child; Tilda Bond, a ten-year old, who roams the food bank warehouse as her father works to feed the hungry; and Micah Gallivan, a Mormon, who searches for a way to tell his father that he is not going on his mission. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/13651 | |
| dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Fine arts | en_US |
| dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Women's studies | en_US |
| dc.title | Absent Without Leave | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |