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Waiting for a Category Five

Year: 2025

Type: dissertation

Abstract: Waiting for a Category Five is a series of nonfiction essays that explore the area between the historical and the personal, and the point where our modem lives intersect with the actions, customs and lifestyles of those who came before us. Combining reportage, personal essay and memoir, the collection works to probe the effect history has had on our modern existence. The collection ranges from the personal — a writer' attempt to run a marathon after an injury — to the communal — how a California town is changed after its businesspeople reject a rabble-rousing community motto. At the heart of the essays is a look at how sea level change threatens the future — and the past — of a neighborhood in Norfolk, VA.

Source: ODU Digital Commons (Old Dominion University)

DOI: 10.25777/kyf7-8k75

Author: Hoyer, Meghan

Institution: Old Dominion University

Language: English

Topic: Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6889653628

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