Title
Date of Award
Winter 2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
Committee Director
Michael Pearson
Committee Member
Luisa A. Igloria
Committee Member
Joe Jackson
Abstract
The Quality of Mercy is a hybrid of memoir and reportage, the story of a daughter’s love and her father’s journey through his vocation to the Catholic Church, his entry in the priesthood and his years of missionary work. Not many people discover in their teenage years that their father had been a celibate Catholic priest. Not many have the opportunity to trace their father’s story through diaries, interviews, and recollections. The Quality of Mercy is both a window into the world and a mirror into the soul, a daughter’s attempt to tell her father’s unique tale.
DOI
10.25777/7b25-8315
ISBN
9780438991705
Recommended Citation
McNamara, Kerry.
"The Quality of Mercy"
(2018). Master of Fine Arts (MFA), thesis, English, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/7b25-8315
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_etds/71