Date of Award

Spring 2014

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Department

English

Program/Concentration

Creative Writing

Committee Director

Michael Pearson

Committee Member

Blake Bailey

Committee Member

Janet Peery

Call Number for Print

Special Collections; LD4331.E64 W38 2014

Abstract

Through the Green Briar is a condensed version of a longer memoir that follows the narrator over the course of approximately a decade, beginning at the age of 16, as he tries to find meaning and purpose. The setting moves from New Jersey, where the narrator grows up, to New York, where he goes to college, and Virginia, where he ultimately moves. It's a coming-of-age story without a redemptive ending. The New Jersey coast is destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, and this destruction ultimately reflects the narrator's self-destruction over the course of the narrative. And yet, the narrator learns that it is destruction that ultimately leads to creation—both in the physical world and the emotional.

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DOI

10.25777/sbd5-a631

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