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ORCID
N/A
Document Type
Campus Access
Degree Program
English
Degree Type
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2015
Month Degree Awarded
May
Keywords
Love Story, Virginia Tech, Gun Control, Korea, Virginia, Memoir
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/7234273
Abstract
Massacre tracks three intersecting narratives during and after a fictionalized recounting of the infamous Virginia Tech massacre. In each characters’ search of individual re-creation and autonomy, they encounter the failings of their person, their families, their institutions, and their country. Formed by the great and impossible trauma that bound them, massacre survivors Connor and Tara navigate the tricky and deceitful terrain of a marriage that should never have been.