Consider the Flowers of the Field is a novel-in-progress about four daughters who
are raised in deep-hollow Appalachia. When their parents finish rehab and prison stints,
they start their own church and force the girls to participate in the ministry. The story
follows the girls into adulthood and examines the ways each is affected by history,
environment, birth order, memory, secrets, and religion. One daughter renounces her
parents and God and spends her life in academia and social work, one takes up the
preaching mantle, one is the promiscuous, drug-addled antithesis of what her parents
stand for, and one daughter is born after her parents start their new life so she has no
concept of how things used to be. Consider the Flowers of the Field asks, “How do we
transcend, embrace, or reject the dogma of our youth?” / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2018. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fau.edu/oai:fau.digital.flvc.org:fau_40863 |
| Contributors | Sutton, Trina M. (author), Furman, Andrew (Thesis advisor), Florida Atlantic University (Degree grantor), Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English |
| Publisher | Florida Atlantic University |
| Source Sets | Florida Atlantic University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation, Text |
| Format | 96 p., application/pdf |
| Rights | Copyright © is held by the author, with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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