Date of Award
August 2012
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
English
First Advisor
Valerie Laken
Committee Members
Liam Callanan, George Clark, Pete Sands, Jonathan Kanter
Abstract
A Story That Made You Up traces the dissolution of a long friendship between two women, Mia, the novel's first-person narrator, and Jules. The focus of the novel involves the importance in women's lives of having close female friends, and the devastation that occurs when those relationships end. The novel begins with the termination of the relationship and then moves backwards, in achronological fragments, to tell the story of the full twenty-five year friendship.
Recommended Citation
Himmelheber, Rachel Haley, "A Story That Made You Up: A Novel" (2012). Theses and Dissertations. 191.
https://dc.uwm.edu/etd/191