A Southern rite of passage novel that takes place in Venable, Georgia, during the summer of 1962, "On Grant's Nose" depicts the struggle of fifteen year old Marley Mason as she attempts to come to terms with the memories of her past and the frustrations of her present. Five years before the novel begins, Marley's mother left her and her younger brother, Huey, and went to Atlanta. Two weeks later she was killed accidentally. Marley believes that her mother would have returned, but her family holds firmly to their condemnation of a woman who abandoned her husband and two small children. Marley learns to weave her own fabric of memory. She learns that truth is, at best, an individual fabrication based on a need for memory. The truth is never absolute and is always malleable. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-06, Section: A, page: 1655. / Co-Directors: Janet Burroway; Sheila Ortiz Taylor. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1989.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_78022 |
| Contributors | Adkins, Janet Marie., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 145 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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