Mothers and daughters -- Fiction

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This thesis is the beginning of a novel, entitled Almost There. The narrator is a thirty-year-old woman named Sophie who tells the story of a summer, fifteen years ago, when she lived with her mother in a small town in Vermont. During that summer, the ten

Overview "'An Unmothered Daughter' is a short memoir about my mother, who I've been estranged from since I was 16. In the opening, I show how she suffered from drug and alcohol addiction since I was a kid, where she takes to her favorite bar. I try to define the characteristics of being a mom and a mother in chapter 2 by comparing the different woman my older brothers know. Sections 4,7 and 8 focus more on my life without her, while chapters 5,6 and 10 unpack my maternal family's dynamics. I...

Overview "The Best of My Love presents a drama/comedy feature-length script that explores the joys and challenges of maintaining a relationship between mother and daughter. Elizabeth, an actor who's just been nominated for her first Academy award, struggles to find her place both in the Hollywood industry and in life. Returning home to celebrate her parents' 30th anniversary, Elizabeth finds hope and healing through recounting stories of her mother, Joey's journey to finding love and hope in the bond...

Overview "DAYIAH, 22, is a recent college graduate from Harlem, New York. She lives at home with her mother LUCILLE 'LUCY', 50s, and her father CLYDE 50s. From a young age, Dayiah has been extremely talented in painting, and as such, she's dreamed of becoming an artist. Although her father supports her, it's been a challenge convincing her mother to get behind her as one. This has a huge impact on the way Dayiah sees herself, and what she thinks she is able to accomplish. When Dayiah decides to save...

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"This is a novel about what it means to be a daughter, and how relationships can morph and change with trauma. This novel is told from two points of view: the first is of a mother who is born during the Vietnam War and how she escapes from the country and immigrates to the United States as a refugee. The second is of her daughter, a second generation Asian American who must come to terms with her identity and her mother’s past when her mother passes away." -- Abstract

Overview "LET'S GO KILL YOUR FATHER is a dark comedy and drama centered around a mother-daughter road trip that explores the complicated gravity of grief and guilt. Sprinkled with comedic levity, the film's emotional arc is tethered between the creation of one life and the ending of another. A young Cuban woman completing in vitro fertilization is suddenly jolted into a mission of the opposite nature when her estranged, sickly father asks her to travel from Miami to Portland to euthanize him. She...

Overview "'Linxi and Her World' is a 2-channel video installation that explores the artist's first motherhood, and her daughter Linxi's early childhood. All the footage was shot in 2020 when Linxi was between 2-3 years old. It was also when social distancing and wearing masks became a daily routine. In this installation, two experimental videos are projected onto the wall across from each other. The two videos share the same length and they start and finish simultaneously. On one side, the shaky...

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Historical novel for young adults set during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Maureen struggles to understand her mother's work at a New England defense plant as the threat of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union increases.

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In a journey to help and understand her troubled mother, a Vietnamese divorcee consumed with remnants from her past, 16-year old Minh travels to Vietname and uncovers the life she left behind. -- abstract.

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"Mother May I depicts the cat-and-mouse game between a young woman who believed she was sick for the first eighteen years of her life and the mother who caused her illness. The mother's timeline takes place in the present while the daughter's timeline begins five years earlier. This second timeline slowly fills in the missing pieces of the present-day puzzle. By the end of the story, the two narratives converge. Mother May I is a finished novel of 85,000 words." -- Abstract

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A novel about a young woman and her mother, and how the past has shaped their lives and their relationship. -- abstract.

Overview "REMEMBER THIS is an eight episode limited series designed for streaming platforms. It focuses on the "what ifs" of advanced Alzheimer's research. The technology is designed to not only view memories but also manipulate them. With a family drama at the heart of this Sci-Fi thriller, REMEMBER THIS explores a mother/daughter relationship that is fraught with expectations and missed opportunities. Family secrets, constructed reality, and self-identity create a narrative that evoke personal and...

Overview "The aim of this thesis was to create a work of popular fiction in the horror genre. This thesis contains a section of a novel set in the rural New York town of Red Creek. A ten-year old girl named Laura lives with her mother, who is possessed by menacing ghosts. The mother, colloquially known as Mama, threatens Laura and keeps her isolated within their house that borders a vast rail yard. Laura, desperate to escape, explores the rail yard, dreaming of finding a way out. She meets a...

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For years Beth's mother convinced her that God was her father. Shortly before high school graduation, however, her father contacted her to say that he never knew she existed and wanted to become a part of her life. Amid her mother's intense spirituality a