Date of Award
2016
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Schmitt, Kate
Abstract
Life In Three Houses is a memoir that explores the history of the women on the maternal side of my family. The book chronicles my grandmother’s memories of her life in occupied France, beginning when her father won the 1936 French National Lottery and built the house which would later be seized by Nazi forces, and continues with her emigration to America and explores her life as a mother before the narrative shifts focus to retell the story of her youngest daughter—and my mother—Michelle. Their stories are juxtaposed with vignettes of my personal experiences exploring my family history and what it means to be a woman in my maternal lineage. Through the book’s disjointed structure and weaving together of narratives, I attempt to find a balance between reporting fact-based information and creating nonfiction through my meditations on the excavation of memory and the subjectivity of perception.
Extent
226 p.
Recommended Citation
Cassanetti, Nicole, "Life In Three Houses" (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019. 1501.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_6/1501
Identifier
FA00004575
Comments
Includes bibliography.|Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Includes bibliography.