THINGS WE HAVE IN COMMON: ESSAYS AND EXPERIMENTS

• Main Author: Grosz, Willow
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: NMU Commons 2018
• Subjects: family; Alaska; mourning; Alaska Native fiction; short stories; flash; fiction; hybrid; image-text; Nonfiction; Poetry; Athabascan
• Online Access: https://commons.nmu.edu/theses/550; https://commons.nmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1577&context=theses

Things We Have in Common is a collection of short stories, flash pieces, and image-text experiments that attempts, in the wake of the death of my mother, to excavate the relationship between memory and narrative, identity and belonging against a backdrop of the main forces that have influenced my familial group, namely generational poverty, a changing relationship with our Athabascan and Caucasian heritages, and the complicated ecology, geography, and culture of Alaska. Like many forays into memory, this project represents a joyous failure. Please read this collection as a love letter to Alaska.