Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Title
Identifier
194
Date
2010
Date of Award
12-1-2010
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts
Major
Creative Writing
Committee Chair
Kristen Iversen
Committee Member
Eric Carl Link
Committee Member
Sonja Linvingston
Abstract
A rebellious teenage girl with driving bravado and Southern manners gets pregnant and married, in that order, her senior year of high school, class of 1998. Through cinematic scenes like a shotgun wedding, struggling marriage, single motherhood, college and business career, the feisty narrator builds tension up to a climax. This is not just another triumphant story of teenage pregnancy set deep in the heart of the Bible belt. Not About Me: A Memoir is an approximately 47,000 word book-length example of what happens ten years later when young parents grow in separate directions but maintain a relationship for the child. After I have put her first in all my life's major decisions for a decade and achieve my goal of success in the city, my daughter asks to live with her father in the small town where it all began. This is a narrative account of letting her go.
Library Comment
Dissertation or thesis originally submitted to the local University of Memphis Electronic Theses & dissertation (ETD) Repository.
Recommended Citation
Baxter, Candice Renee, "Not About Me: A Memoir" (2010). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 144.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/144
Comments
Data is provided by the student.