Date of Award
2003
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Schwartz, Jason
Abstract
Waking Up is an addiction novel that traces the decline of twentysomething Rabbit Reynolds. Rabbit has found a strategy for coping with her intense loneliness---anesthetic alcoholism. The novel is about her desperate need for approval, validation, and external measures of self-worth, and the ways in which that need manifests itself in substance abuse, self-mutilation, and hollow relationships. Waking Up opens with Rabbit's lowest point, then goes back in time to follow her descent and, finally, her first steps toward recovery.
Extent
356 p.
Recommended Citation
Parker, Pamela Cox, "Waking Up" (2003). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009. 656.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_5/656
Identifier
FADT13091
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2003.|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters