Marquez-Uppman, Julia, authorVara, Vauhini, advisorCandelaria Fletcher, Harrison, committee memberDeMirjyn, Maricela, committee member2024-05-272026-05-202024https://hdl.handle.net/10217/238415This memoir-in-essays explores questions of family, grief, and identity through various formal innovations. The first few essays examine identity formation through the concepts of place, lineage, inheritance, and home. In the latter half of the collection, the essays then shift to deeper questions of relationality, interdependence, and art (storytelling, music-making) as modes of constructing the self.born digitalmasters thesesengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.TextEmbargo expires: 05/20/2026.