Add to ORKGOn March 16, 1996, I interviewed my mother, Beth Tillmann, about her parents\u27 divorce and her life as a foster child. From detailed notes taken during our phone conversation and from family stories told to me throughout my life, I constructed a narrative titled A Home of Her Own. Its structure and tone mimic the way my mother speaks about the dissolution of her family of origin and her attachments to and separations from those who tried to help her rebuild a sense of home. After the story, I discuss what narrative representations of loss offer the writer, the participant, and the reader
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This chapter explores family estrangement through the lens of the trauma of transgenerational abando...
Home is a central and contested emotional, imagined and physical location that is meaningful for eve...
In 2017, I learned that my estranged mother had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. This article ex...
The purpose of this thesis is to conduct an exploration of self through a series of essays. The sev...
Finding Home is a creative non-fiction essay. The story follows an abandoned child through Kentucky...
An episodic narrative about a family from New Jersey, told from the perspective of a mother to her y...
Patchwork Memories is a relational memoir that illustrates the experiences of a mother and daughter....
Hurley, M. (2011). The missing mother: How Ruth and Lucille of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping dev...
In her narrative, author Angelica Diaz writes about her development as a daughter, sister, and aunt....
Where is home if you have no definitive place to call home, such as a house you grew up in and someo...
This memoir originated from a final project in Honors 199, where we had to write a letter to a famil...
What disturbs some readers of Housekeeping are the depictions of women and family that are in stark ...
After sitting around the kitchen table one night at dinner and listening to older relatives reminisc...
We Benefit from That is a novel in stories about one suburban family. The father, Tony, divorced wit...
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoD...
This chapter explores family estrangement through the lens of the trauma of transgenerational abando...
Home is a central and contested emotional, imagined and physical location that is meaningful for eve...
In 2017, I learned that my estranged mother had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. This article ex...