Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>The untitled memoir focuses on a young woman with a troubling past and possibly bright future. Having a drug addict as a mother who was either abusive or absent causes tension in Tara’s life when she finds out she is pregnant with twins. Tara must learn how to be a mother without having a good example or someone to turn to for motherly advice.</p> <p>Interspersed between chapters from her childhood are vignettes that follow and track the pregnancy. The vignettes show the uneasiness and hopeful aspect of becoming a mother and the growth that Tara must go through herself in just 9 months from being a lonely child who had to see and deal with adult things way to young, to a woman ready to raise her own children.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Restricted Project: Campus only access
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Year dc:date.available
- 2016
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Cummins, Tara Lee-Geerlings
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Brown, James
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/384
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu:etd-1369