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    Funeral for a Whale

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    Author/Creator
    Cohen, Michael Todd
    Date
    2023
    Type of Work
    162 pages
    Text
    theses
    Program
    MFA in Creative Nonfiction
    Rights
    This work is restricted for 10 years from the date listed above. No access will be permitted until the embargo has expired. Once the embargo expires the work is available only on Goucher College's campus.
    Subjects
    memoir
    capitalism
    grief
    queerness
    faith
    New England
    adoptee
    Creative nonfiction -- Theses.
    Abstract
    At ten, queer adoptee Michael Todd Cohen witnessed the bloody burial of a thirty-foot whale on a New England beach near his home. Five years later, in the last months and days of his adoptive father’s battle with terminal cancer, Cohen sees it as a metaphor for the life-altering secret buried between them. Then, widowed at thirty-two, when his husband is lost in a high-rise fire, Cohen struggles to make sense of a world that takes more than it gives. This lyric field journal from the fraught borderlands of sexuality, home, family, grief, and faith asks: in the land of capitalism, who determines our worth? What precisely is the value of grief? And how do we invest in each other when futures are uncertain?


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    Goucher College
    1021 Dulaney Valley Road
    Baltimore, MD 21204

    www.goucher.edu

    Contact Information:
    kristen.welzenbach@goucher.edu
    library.goucher.edu/md-soar


    If you wish to submit a copyright complaint or withdrawal request, please email mdsoar-help@umd.edu.