The Art of Boiling Water

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dc.contributor.advisorMori, Kyoko
dc.creatorFitzpatrick, Rosemarie
dc.date2022-05-02
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-19T12:48:31Z
dc.date.available2023-06-19T12:48:31Z
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is a memoir, told in the form of a series of personal essays that examine how love and loyalty exist alongside abuse and misunderstanding in the narrator’s family. The narrator explores her own vulnerability and culpability and is sustained by her love for writing as well as her love for the natural world. Alongside the family narrative are accounts of the narrator’s exploration of wild spaces, revealing how families and ecosystems are vulnerable to contamination: just as water and soil can be polluted by toxins, or animals killed by human carelessness, so too families can be poisoned and broken by a history of physical and emotional abuse.
dc.description.noteThis thesis has been embargoed for 10 years. It will not be available until May 2032 at the earliest.
dc.format.mediummasters theses
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/13356
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsCopyright 2022 Rosemarie Fitzpatrick
dc.rights.urihttps://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0
dc.subject.keywordsMemoir
dc.subject.keywordsDomestic abuse
dc.subject.keywordsDeath and loss
dc.subject.keywordsPersonal essay
dc.subject.keywordsNature
dc.subject.keywordsEcology
dc.titleThe Art of Boiling Water
dc.typeText
thesis.degree.disciplineCreative Writing
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelMaster's
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Fine Arts in Creative Writing

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