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Set sometime in 2002, And the Hills Burned tells the story of Chidi, a boy whose father – former Minister of Petroleum in the Nigerian Military administration of the early 90s, and current environmental activist – runs afoul of the...
An Appropriate Age is a novel told through the alternating third-person perspectives of three women in the same family: Anna, Presley, and Gigi. It is divided into three parts. It is set in a fictional retirement community in central...
Set in the near future, North imagines a world where the oceans have risen faster than expected, triggering economic and political dysfunction. The novel has two storylines that ultimately intertwine. In the first, 20-year-old Olin...
A Season in Hell with Rimbaud forms an allegorical travelogue that chronicles two brothers' mutual descent into hell. When the older brother runs off by himself, the younger brother begins roaming Hell's different landscapes in search of...
The Plum Queen is a historical novel submitted as a creative dissertation in fiction. It traces a complex, lifelong friendship between two women: Phoebe Eberhardt, the heiress to an agricultural fortune, and Lenore Foster, the brilliant...
In Metamorphoses, Ovid outlines the progression of human generations as being made first from clay, then blood, then stone. The humans made from clay represented a leftover unity between heaven and earth, which had only recently been...
Sure Thing is a collection of short stories set primarily in Southeastern Wisconsin, in the fictional suburb of Forest Hills, south of Milwaukee. The stories take place between 2008 and 2018 and document the daily lives of the people of...
The Book of Alice embodies the tension between a desire to re-center Black women in the narrative of creation and the Bible's history of oppression. There are several questions guiding this completion of this project: first, what...
Boy Man: Multiple Literacies and Narrating Black Southern Boyhood in the Works of Kiese Laymon focuses on Mississippi-born author Kiese Laymon's three published manuscripts: Long Division, a novel; How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others...
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