Abstract
This project explores the issues of familial relationships with special attention paid to those between women. In addition, many of the works are concerned with grief and its effect on both these relationships and the stories we tell about those we believe we know: people both real and imagined. In an approach that incorporates poetry and prose (and often bridges the illusory gap between them), this collection is an elegy for lost, forgotten and bastardized stories. Most of all, this project questions whether it is possible to reclaim lost stories and the people in them. Are we ever free from the empty spaces in the narratives they haunt?