Date of Award
Spring 2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
Committee Director
Janet Peery
Committee Member
Blake Bailey
Committee Member
Sheri Reynolds
Abstract
The stories in Misplaced Boys present characters deeply affected by parental relationships. The stories are set in locations across the U.S.—Baltimore, New York, Kansas; an elementary school, a suburban home—and feature characters grappling with the question of how to live in the absence of a parental figure: a young and inexperienced teacher trying to reconcile the gaping disparities between expectation and reality; a successful voice actor selling his voice and dealing with the consequences; a delusional man who becomes obsessed with self-reliance after his father’s death and clambers to get to his funeral; an elementary school boy trying to raise his brothers after their mother enters a coma.
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DOI
10.25777/3nse-q977
ISBN
9781339787893
Recommended Citation
Matsumoto, Shori.
"Misplaced Boys"
(2016). Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Thesis, English, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/3nse-q977
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds/10