Date of Award
4-14-2010
Degree Type
Closed Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Josh Russell - Committee Chair
Second Advisor
Dr. John Holman - Committee Member
Third Advisor
Dr. Sheri Joseph - Committee Member
Abstract
The Forgiveness Project includes a critical introduction that defines the author’s approach to the short-short form as well as an explanation of how historiographical metafiction can work to memorialize. The first section contains primarily short-short stories that address the themes of motherhood, small tyrannies, happy liars, caregiving and the clichés of grief. A collection of linked short stories follows, revolving around elusive forgiveness. On the night of July 17, 1977, Juanita Lee, a bridge tender in South Florida, was abducted by two men and executed in the Everglades to silence her opposition to the demolition of an Intracoastal Waterway bridge. Twenty-two years later her daughter, Jill, now a Washington D.C. lobbyist who views the world through the cynical lens of her life’s work, is confronted with a plea for forgiveness via an organization called “The Forgiveness Project,” representing one of her mother’s killers.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1340553
Recommended Citation
Gentry, Karen Lee, "The Forgiveness Project." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2010.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1340553