Bosworth, DavidKipling, Tyler Miranda2016-07-142016-07-142016-07-142016-06Kipling_washington_0250O_15907.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/36636Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2016-06How do you tell the story of a family? This is a question that is of key concern to me as both a writer and a reader. I am drawn, from both angles, to character as a key element of fiction. Yet when we speak of a family, we refer not just to the individuals that make up the family, but to the family unit itself, as a series of complex relationships that vary hugely over time and in reaction to events and moments that act as catalysts for change. To capture a family in writing, then, one must be able to express the simultaneity of togetherness and selfhood, of dependence and independence.application/pdfen-USLiteratureCreative writingenglishThesis