“Whatever Happened to ___” written by anonymous details an abusive event she experienced by her husband and how it relates to a broader culture concerning female writers and motherhood. The writer has a talent for setting a scene and then moving forward in the timeline to add a future context to the event. For example she lays out how she and her daughter where making orange chicken after a stressful day, and her husband enters the scene to start the main conflict thrust upon her. She then goes forward in time to add context that her husband would have been angry due to jealousy of her being a successful author while he is not, as in the moment that would not have been known because the husband was yelling about imagined grievances such as saying the mother gets away with too much. If there was one question iq ask the author is to add some detail to their work about how they wrote the first three books or how they managaed to get them published to add detail to her journey as a writer aand how it feels to almost have that part of her life taken away.
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Professor: Jessica Penner
Email: creative.writing.citytech2@gmail.com
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 AM – 1 PM. I’ll be available through Zoom and will send an invitation via email that you should keep all semester. Try to join my meeting at the start of the hour, not at the end—since I may be talking to other students or have another appointment after the hour is up. If those times don’t work with your schedule, we can schedule a different time. This means you’ll have to schedule an appointment in advance via email. I suggest you have multiple times in mind, since your schedule may not mesh with mine!
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