Date of Award
2018
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Furman, Andrew
Abstract
Consider the Flowers of the Field is a novel-in-progress about four daughters who are raised in deep-hollow Appalachia. When their parents finish rehab and prison stints, they start their own church and force the girls to participate in the ministry. The story follows the girls into adulthood and examines the ways each is affected by history, environment, birth order, memory, secrets, and religion. One daughter renounces her parents and God and spends her life in academia and social work, one takes up the preaching mantle, one is the promiscuous, drug-addled antithesis of what her parents stand for, and one daughter is born after her parents start their new life so she has no concept of how things used to be. Consider the Flowers of the Field asks, “How do we transcend, embrace, or reject the dogma of our youth?”
Extent
96 p.
Recommended Citation
Sutton, Trina M., "Consider the Flowers of the Field" (2018). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019. 1888.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_6/1888
Identifier
FA00013028
Comments
Includes bibliography.|Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2018.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Includes bibliography.