Date of Award

Spring 2013

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Department

English

Program/Concentration

Creative Writing

Committee Director

Blake Bailey

Committee Member

Michael Pearson

Committee Member

Sheri Reynolds

Call Number for Print

Special Collections; LD4331.E64 H69 2013

Abstract

Waiting for a Category Five is a series of nonfiction essays that explore the area between the historical and the personal, and the point where our modem lives intersect with the actions, customs and lifestyles of those who came before us. Combining reportage, personal essay and memoir, the collection works to probe the effect history has had on our modern existence. The collection ranges from the personal — a writer' attempt to run a marathon after an injury — to the communal — how a California town is changed after its businesspeople reject a rabble-rousing community motto. At the heart of the essays is a look at how sea level change threatens the future — and the past — of a neighborhood in Norfolk, VA.

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DOI

10.25777/kyf7-8k75

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