Graduation Year
2023
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Writing and Rhetoric
Reader 1
Kimberly Drake
Reader 2
Adam Novy
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© 2023 Amelie Lee
Abstract
“How to Rebuild Home: Lessons from Loss” is a memoir that tells the story of my loss of my mother to cancer the summer before my senior year of college. In the piece, I utilize epistolary and creative nonfiction styles to grapple with what it means to grieve a mother both before and after she’s gone and what a daughter’s duty is to her parents in a Chinese American family. Through letters to my eighteen-year-old self and memoir-style storytelling, I've tried to create a coming-of-age story that dives into an emotional and nuanced relationship with family, love, and grief.
Recommended Citation
Lee, Amelie, "How to Rebuild Home: Lessons from Loss" (2023). Scripps Senior Theses. 2066.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/2066
