All That is Given
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2018-01-04
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MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa
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In All That is Given, Megan Levin confronts the shattering of the Davis family, and the
pieces that spread and grow on European and American soil. After undertaking the task
to heal from maternal divergence, daughter Aubrey and her husband Johannes Esser
create their lives in the university town of Marburg, Germany. Back in New England,
younger brother Isaac vows to keep his wife Muriel in an eternal state of felicitousness.
Aubrey’s best friend and sister-in-law, Bridgett, soon becomes the median between what
is left of the Davis family. With the help of a Parisian painter, she shelters her nephew
before he too is caught up their perpetual familial feuds. This novel pilots readers though
the Davis’ and Essers’ adolescent adventures through the use of flashback, and invites
readers to explore the demands and cultural electricity of expatriation as it is seen through
the eyes of young adults.
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Fiction, Novel, Expatriation