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You Have to Save Something

Green, Shawna
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu171198434649993

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2024, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, English.
You Have to Save Something is a collection of nonfiction essays about growing up in Appalachia as the eldest daughter in a blue-collar, working-class family. The writer narrates profound moments with her family, especially with her brothers and their friends in a small community where they gained insight into their economic place, their losses, their abilities, their father’s tremendous work ethic, and their mother’s depression along with her particularly harsh methods of punishment. Memory and story are often connected to and shared through treasured objects that were and remain connected to the fabric of the family’s life and to the writer herself. At the heart of these essays is a fondness for the place and the people that endures throughout the writer’s life and into the present day.
Elissa Washuta (Advisor)
308 p.
Families and Family Life; Folklore; Social Structure
Appalachia; growing up; siblings; work ethic; grief; relationships; family; economic place; loss; depression

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  • Green, S. (2024). You Have to Save Something [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu171198434649993

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Green, Shawna. You Have to Save Something. 2024. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu171198434649993.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Green, Shawna. "You Have to Save Something." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu171198434649993

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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