Date of Award
5-2025
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.F.A.
Degree Program
Creative Writing
Department
English
Major Professor
M.O. Walsh
Second Advisor
Barb Johnson
Third Advisor
Abram Himelstein
Abstract
The Ways of Water tells the story of recent college graduate Lindsay Cady, who heads to Alabama with his best friend in the hopes that he will find a way to put his new journalism degree to use. After scouring the news for days, a story that seems tailor-made for him appears on television. A child has gone missing in a nearby county, and the police are doing nothing to find him, according to the child’s distressed stepmother. Cady insists that this story demands to be told by him, though it's unclear if his motivation is really about finding this missing child, or his intense captivation with the boy’s stepmother.
Recommended Citation
Grey, Lauren, "The Ways of Water" (2025). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 3262.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/3262
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