Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p><em>Domesticated Animal </em>is, at its core, a novel about a girl and her dog. Lira has lost her parents in an accident and her only tether to the world is her dog, Blue. She is being taken care of by a foster family who doesn’t quite know how to handle her trauma, and a cynical, cold social worker named Stella. But when an incident occurs between Blue and a stranger’s child at the park, Lira fears that she and her dog will be separated, so she runs away into the relative “wild” of the swampy outskirts of Houston, Texas. The narration shifts from Lira, to Blue, to Stella, as the novel attempts to explore the consciousness of three different beings as they all struggle to find freedom and find home.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Fine Arts
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Year dc:date.available
- 2024
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Barron, Luisa
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Jon Billman
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://commons.nmu.edu/theses/839
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:commons.nmu.edu:theses-1825