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FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

2016

A Second Universe

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A Second Universe, Emily A. Benson Mar 2016

A Second Universe, Emily A. Benson

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A SECOND UNIVERSE is a memoir-in-essays that traces the author’s coming of age and her pursuit of self-discovery, belonging, and healing in all its forms. The book opens in the past, diving into the lives of the author’s parents before she was born and shedding light on the many obstacles they overcame to bring her earth-side. Set against the backdrop of the Southern Utah deserts and the clarity the author finds in the natural world, these essays wind through the author’s different childhood homes, down the lonely and desolate road of a sister’s addiction, and into the darkness that comes …