How I Picture Us
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Fine Arts
Major
Creative Writing
Date of Defense
11-11-2010
Graduate Advisor
Mary Troy
Committee
Mary Troy
Steven Schreiner
John Dalton
Abstract
How I Picture Us is a novel exploring the definition of family and the factors that determine how different people choose to apply their own definitions. The story unfolds through the eyes of Frances, her daughter Emilie, and occasionally her daughter Vanessa, all of whose lives and genes create a web that sometimes engenders and sometimes inhibits familial ties, depending on whose definitions are in effect. As events in the novel unfold, Emilie is forced to confront and redefine her own concepts of family. Her actions shape the reactions of her mother and her sister as all three women arrive at an altered perception of their family ties.
Recommended Citation
Jacobson, Gianna Sidonie, "How I Picture Us" (2010). Theses. 101.
https://irl.umsl.edu/thesis/101