These personal essays present a twenty-something's evolving attitudes toward her occupations. Each essay explores a different job-from birthday party clown, to seitan-maker, to psychiatric den mother-while circling around sub-themes of addiction, disability, sex, love, nature, and nourishment (both food and otherwise). Through landscape, extended metaphor and symbol, and recurring characters, the collection addresses how a person's work often defines how she sees the world. Each of the narrator's jobs thrusts her into networks of people and places that both helps and impedes the process of self-discovery. As a whole, the essay collection functions as a memoir, tracking an often-universal journey, one that many undertake in order to discover a meaningful life, and sometimes, eventually, a career.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc9074 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Keckler, Kristen A. |
| Contributors | McCutchan, Ann, Rodman, Barbara, Tait, John, 1969-, Vanhoutte, Jacqueline, 1968- |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Keckler, Kristen A., Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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