Wish you were gone
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Information, School of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Leyton, Carolina
issued: 2024-07-08T21:25:47Z
issued: 2024
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This excerpt from a young adult novel, Wish You Were Gone, deals with topics of grief and memory as they intertwine with immigrant experiences and movements towards the global north. The story follows eighteen-year-old, Colombian-American, Maria Molina Herrera, after the passing of her maternal grandmother, Abuelita Lucero. Not to worry, though, because María doesn’t have to grieve. She’ll see her Abuelita again. Not in an, “I’ll see you in my dreams” or supernatural signs kind of way. María’s family can tether the souls of the departed to the living world, essentially bonding her blood and family marriage for eternity. So, everything is great because Abuelita Lucero will return and life can go on as normal. Except not really. María’s connection to her grandmother has been severed by none other than Abuelita herself. For María to be able to talk to her grandmother’s soul, Abuelita had to leave an item in her will for María to use as a conduit. Out of petty resentment over an argument, Abuelita Lucero didn’t leave anything for María’s parents, little brother, or María herself. Confused and hurt by her grandmother’s decision, María decides to take matters into her own hands, not only wanting to fully understand Abuelita’s reasons for doing this, but ultimately fix the rift post-mortem. She enlists the help of both dead and living relatives to undertake the bureaucratic process of inserting her family into Abuelita’s will (yes, even the dead can’t escape legalities) and, in the process, discovers out family secrets that might have been better left alone and now threaten to irreversibly break her family.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/88596
note: WISH YOU WERE GONE by Carolina Leyton B.A., University of British Columbia, 2021 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (Children’s Literature) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) July 2024 © Carolina Leyton, 2024 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the thesis entitled: Wish You Were Gone Submitted by Carolina Leyton in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Children’s Literature Examining Committee: Dr. Emily Pohl-Weary, Associate Professor, School of Creative Writing, UBC Supervisor Dr. Eric Meyers, Associate Professor, School of Information, UBC Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Kathryn Shoemaker, Adjunct Professor, School of Information, UBC Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Tess Prendergast, Lecturer, School of Information, UBC Supervisory Committee Member iii Abstract This excerpt from a young adult novel, Wish You Were Gone, deals with topics of grief and memory as they intertwine with immigrant experiences and movements towards the global north. The story follows eighteen-year-old, Colombian-American, Maria Molina Herrera, after the passing of her maternal grandmother, Abuelita Lucero. Not to worry, though, because María doesn’t have to grieve. She’ll see her Abuelita again. Not in an, “I’ll see you in my dreams” or supernatural signs kind of way. María’s family can tether the souls of the departed to the living world, essentially bonding her blood and family marriage for eternity. So, everything is great because Abuelita Lucero will return and life can go on as normal. Except not really. María’s connection to her grandmother has been severed by none other than Abuelita herself. For María to be able to talk to her grandmother’s soul, Abuelita had to leave an item in her will for María to use as a conduit. …
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2024-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0444109
language: eng
degree discipline: Children's Literature
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Pohl-Weary, Emily
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88596