Whichever of My Parents' Gods Will Take Me
| dc.contributor.advisor | Norman, Howard | en_US |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Mitchell, Emily | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Goldstein, Ali | 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 | 2015-06-27T05:33:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-06-27T05:33:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.13016/M28S6B | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/16710 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Literature | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Creative writing | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | novella | en_US |
| dc.title | Whichever of My Parents' Gods Will Take Me | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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