Everybody Dreams, Everybody Lies: A Novel of Blessing
Graduation Date
Fall 2007
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Document Form
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Program Name
Humanities
First Reader
Joan Baranow, PhD
Second Reader
Richard Simon, MFA
Abstract
I can’t make up my mind. It’s been unkempt for quite some time now. On one side (the analytic), there is the desire to write a tome about the father wound. Meaning The loss of wildness, instinct, what happens when men become distortions bent by what women want. About desire and looking for a man who can love without a measuring tape or mirror. This story will be set in Alaska, where the men are happy and the gods are Bear, Raven, Salmon and Eagle. Historical and mythical. Ice. Moon. Silver.
But then, I can’t write about the father wound and ignore the mother wound. So, the other side of my mind (the creative) wants me to fall and flow, blind to pleasing others, yet grandly, thoroughly in love with life, fearless, throwing caution to the winds so that I can also write something unstructured and free, one of those Creative Non Fiction books, about home, set in Hawaii, where the women are happy, for it is there She dwells - Pele, Fire Goddess. Personal and poetic. Fire. Sun. Gold.