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Sharing Beds

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

Sharing Beds, a collection of three interconnected novellas, follows young women navigating family and romantic relationships, missing sisters and mothers, sticking to routines, making new homes, adopting stray cats, reading books and trying to write. These characters feel most close to reality when they try to put their experiences and interior landscapes into writing. This collection traces the tensions between the safety of the familiar and the possibility of newness; contentment in solitude and the sudden thrill of connection; the inevitability of acting in the world and the pleasure of removing oneself to watch.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Fine Arts
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Creative Writing
Department dc:contributor.department
English
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2015

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Putterman, Kari Lynn
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Roy, Lucinda H.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Falco, Edward C.
  • Vollmer, Matthew

Subjects

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Rights

dc:rights
Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright

Identifiers

dc:identifier.*
Dc Identifier Other
vt_gsexam:5428
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/73575

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2026-07-22
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Putterman, Kari Lynn. Sharing Beds. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73575