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The Mango Snores, Michael S. Garcia
The Mango Snores, Michael S. Garcia
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS
THE MANGO SNORES
by
Michael S. Garcia
Florida International University, 2021
Miami, Florida
Professor John Dufresne, Major Professor
Set in Miami at the start of the twenty-first century, THE MANGO SNORES is a seriocomic crime novel chronicling a week in the life of Sam Espada, Cuban-American writing professor and author of the Mango series of detective fiction. Reeling from the sudden dissolution of his marriage and the abject failure of his latest book, Sam finds himself embroiled in a plot right out of one of his novels when his newest pupil, private investigator Leonard Cobb, is …
Keep The Doors Open, Lauren C. Rivera
Keep The Doors Open, Lauren C. Rivera
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
My purpose in writing this collection of lyric essays is to examine my evolution during one decade, from age 19 to 29. Essential questions have guided me: What stimulated change? What formed my decisions? What predisposed me to my relationship with my partner? Why did I want to have a child? What kind of relationship do I have with my son? How did my relationship with my partner evolve? Why did we decide to leave Miami? Hopefully, I have given the reader a glimpse into my movement from self-centeredness to motherhood, from aloof adolescent to committed partner, from timid daughter …