Marya: A Life | Social Concerns/Themes
One of Oates's most autobiographical novels, Marya traces the journey of the child Marya from her origins in the poor communities of Innisfail and Shaheen Falls in upstate New York to a successful academic career, and a career as translator at the international level, and finally, back home as she decides to search for the alcoholic mother who abandoned her to a paternal aunt and uncle after her father was murdered. The structure enables Oates to address issues that have concerned her in much of her fiction: the defenselessness of a child, particularly a female child; the...
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