Stealing Home
type: CreativeWork
description: This is a fictional account of a family's mental illness which reflects the larger problem of society as a whole. Employing a modernist/postmodernist approach, the author hopes to illuminate the problem, break down stereotypes and call attention to the stigmas and taboos surrounding mental illness. Eddie Kramer is an alcoholic. Distraught over the death of his sister, Beth Ann, who struggled with mental illness, Eddie stumbles through his tumultuous life in a small desert town on the edge of Southern California. It is 1988, and the Los Angeles Dodgers are playing the Oakland A's in the World Series, which Eddie follows closely, along with a friendly bunch of oddball Dodger fans at the local bar. Because of dysfunctional parents, Eddie is raised mainly by his mentally ill sister, who, one year after her death, Eddie believes is communicating with him via a series of unusually bright meteorites streaking across the desert sky.
abstract: This is a fictional account of a family's mental illness which reflects the larger problem of society as a whole. Employing a modernist/postmodernist approach, the author hopes to illuminate the problem, break down stereotypes and call attention to the stigmas and taboos surrounding mental illness. Eddie Kramer is an alcoholic. Distraught over the death of his sister, Beth Ann, who struggled with mental illness, Eddie stumbles through his tumultuous life in a small desert town on the edge of Southern California. It is 1988, and the Los Angeles Dodgers are playing the Oakland A's in the World Series, which Eddie follows closely, along with a friendly bunch of oddball Dodger fans at the local bar. Because of dysfunctional parents, Eddie is raised mainly by his mentally ill sister, who, one year after her death, Eddie believes is communicating with him via a series of unusually bright meteorites streaking across the desert sky.
author: Fenton, Ted
keywords: alcoholism, mental illness, dysfunctional family, baseball, death, English Language and Literature
date published: 2013-12-01T08:00:00Z
date modified: 2026-07-24T03:16:11Z
provider: Missouri State University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Missouri State University