River rocks and vanishing oranges
Date of Award
2012
Document Type
Project
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Department
English
First Advisor
Brown, James
Second Advisor
Moffett, Kevin
Abstract
River Rocks and Vanishing Oranges is a novel set in Southern California, an area that in the first half of the 1900's was the center of the citrus industry for the U.S. The growing, picking and packing of oranges was the primary industry in what today is the Inland Empire. The orange industry flourished in Highland and Redlands until the mid-1960's when the area began its transformation from rural agricultural community to an urban society. The author liked the idea of writing a contemporary story that had this history as its background. She wasn't interested in writing a historical fiction about the citrus industry, but rather about the people who live in the modern end result of that time period. She wanted to show the evolution of the area and of people who lived in these towns filled with acres of orange groves.
Recommended Citation
Monteil-Doucette, Liliana, "River rocks and vanishing oranges" (2012). Theses Digitization Project. 4150.
https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/4150
