Civil unrest
Abstract
This creative thesis is comprised of a novel-in-progress, which currently stands at approximately 72,000 words, representing approximately a quarter of a complete draft. The novel follows the foiling of a domestic terrorist plot during the 2016 election by a middle-aged mother and her teenage son, following them across the course of approximately a month as they fall in with two different, but interconnected, right-wing conspiratorial subcultures that lurk under the surface of their mid-Atlantic town. By navigating their own identities-in-crisis and resolving their strained relationship, they are able to stop chaos and destruction from taking full hold of their community. The first two chapters of the novel, which introduce the two main characters, are presented here. Additionally, a critical introduction seeks to place the creative work in context, both in terms of real-world social inspirations and with regard to previous literature which tackles both conspiracy as a subject, and the sincere, emotionally-driven, closely-observed style of the work.
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M.A.