Date of Award
Spring 5-28-2025
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Department
English/Creative Writing
First Advisor
Eileen Pollack
Second Advisor
Askold Melnyczuk
Third Advisor
Scott Maisano
Abstract
Everyone Talks About the Sky borrows its title from the opening line of the last story in this collection, “Still Friends,” about two women who narrate the slow fracture of their friendship between 9/11 and January 6th. In some way, each of these stories explores fracture and belonging. Reoccurring themes also include female friendship, motherhood, gender roles, class stratifications, aging, beauty, and the body. I’m drawn to specific and vivid milieux including 1990s Cape Cod, early aughts tech and the blogosphere, the American yoga boom, and our present-day political and climate crises.
Recommended Citation
Pacheco, Rebecca R., "Everyone Talks About the Sky" (2025). Graduate Masters Theses. 902.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/masters_theses/902
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