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Racing Fire To The River, Alexandra Itzi
Racing Fire To The River, Alexandra Itzi
MFA Program for Poets & Writers Masters Theses Collection
Racing Fire to the River is a novella about a poverty-stricken community in the Southwest navigating hardship, violence, and the tantalizing mania of an unclaimed lottery ticket jackpot.
South Shore And Everyplace You Don't Belong, Gabe Bump
South Shore And Everyplace You Don't Belong, Gabe Bump
MFA Program for Poets & Writers Masters Theses Collection
South Shore and Everyplace You Don’t Belong tracks a young man, Claude, raised by his grandmother on Chicago’s South Side. We follow Claude as he experiences tropes familiar to young Chicagoans: segregation, gun violence, gang recruitment, death, police brutality, and crooked politics.
We also follow Claude though universal experiences familiar to all young persons: falling in love, social anxiety, making friends, losing friends, rebellion, and identity crises of all shapes and sizes.
We follow Claude as he experiences America as a young black man.