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  • The long house

    Creator:
    Harris, Gregory A.
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    The Long House explores belonging and commitment. Jennifer Hawley, an American graduate student in linguistic anthropology, arrives in the early 1990s in Long Awan, a Dayak village in the remote highlands of Borneo. Her research concerns oral history among Punan families, traditionally nomadic, which have recently decided to settle in...
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    village in the remote highlands of Borneo. Her research concerns oral history among Punan families

  • Home afterwhile

    Creator:
    O'Sullivan, Erin
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    Home Afterwhile, a collection of eight short stories and an essay, explores issues of family and maturation from the landscapes of the Midwest. Generations are connected through a sense of place—from small cornfield towns to Chicago and its suburbs—as well as through what gets retold and what goes unspoken. Characters...
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    wasn’t too bad. It had seemed safe enough, at the time, to sit on his porch and browse the paper in

  • Commercial

    Creator:
    Aguilar, Joseph R.
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    This novel-in-progress is an attempt to struggle with the complicated process of forging one’s identity in the murk of urban Northwest life. The protagonist of this piece is confused, to put it lightly: bi-racial, torn between the affections of divorced parents, unsure about his religious views, and baffled by his...
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    paper?” “Nah. I’ve got lunch with Dad.” I hang up. Cameron loves to jibe about Mom, too

  • Half-life : essays

    Creator:
    Fath, Lauren
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    Lauren Fath, in her non-fiction collection Half-Life: Essays, examines the underpinnings of her upbringing in suburban Fort Wayne, Indiana, focusing primarily on familial relationships and the importance of hindsight in understanding how our families make an imprint on our lives. By looking at our relationships through the lens offered by...
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    ................................................................. 33 The Singer ......................................................................... 50 The

  • The Yogiebogeybox

    Creator:
    Boothman Duyck, Tracy
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    The Yogiebogeybox is a novel-in-stories. This novel explores spiritual transcendence and the connection of art to that spiritual journey. A variety of points of view are employed in the narrative in order to depict the journey of the protagonist, Ant Malo, through this journey. Some of the narrative threads are...
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    Memorial Women's Research Fund. This fund and the careful administration of it by Wendy Madar helped me

  • West of Ellis

    Creator:
    Tafolla Young, Kathryne M.
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    Ellis, a booming mid-sized town in California's Central Valley, is packed with farmers and commuters, and plagued with a dwindling sense of itself and its history. Set against the backdrop of a failed murder-suicide, a secret affair and a wealthy local mogul's attempt to develop the town into something it's...
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    research help. For the preservation of my sanity, I am grateful to Ruby Marquez, Erica Roedder, Eric

  • Foodmaster and three stories

    Creator:
    Starr, Peter W.
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    The purpose of this thesis was to create a sustained piece of fiction that both represented my growth as a writer throughout my time at Oregon State University, and wove together a mixture of imagination, language, and creativity. My hope was to write a novella that incorporated and drew from...
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    and blood with toilet paper. Every day he went to the mirror and imagined the new tooth, its angle

  • The Gospel : according to Matt

    Creator:
    Weber, Joshua D.
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    The Gospel: According to Matt is a novel, told in the first person, simple past tense, depicting the struggle of a young man attempting to make sense of his relationship with his estranged father as he wrestles with a growing crisis of faith. Matt is deeply sincere in his desire...
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    the hands of his faithful, and fill the church's bowl with paper dollars; a miracle like the ones he

  • Comic toast

    Creator:
    Ruch, Alison Louise
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    Comic Toast is a novel depicting a transition period in the life of the comic book artist character, Monica Holliday. This document includes a prologue, which provides details of a trauma in Monica's distant past, in order to inform Monica's adult reactions to the situations she finds herself entangled in....
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    fitful and Monica got up at five a.m. to scan the paper for Joyce's story. It was cool outside the

  • Headwater

    Creator:
    Martens, Jacob L.
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    These essays are an attempt to rebuild memories that explore the nature of work and family. They explore how work knocks against the joints of the body and against the joints between family members, and, as time passes, how the next generation inherits the family line of work only to...
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    armload of wood; I crumpled the paper, stacked the sticks, and struck the match. The wood crackled and