AMBIENT LIGHT: ESSAYS ON MARRIAGE, MOTHERHOOD, AND MENTAL
HEALTH is a collection of ten personal and lyric essays interspersed with poems
that speak to the subject or tone of the essay that follows. These essays examine
the narrator’s experiences as mother, wife, and daughter, and explore the manner
in which the different roles bleed into one another. The narrator’s impending
divorce and the events that coalesce around it shape these essays into a coherent
whole.
In the spirit of Brenda Miller’s lyric essays, the essays collected in AMBIENT
LIGHT: ESSAYS ON MARRIAGE, MOTHERHOOD, AND MENTAL HEALTH, use
rich, imagistic language to tell of places and times both reflective and speculative in
nature. They speak to the all-too-common dilemma of balancing motherhood with a
demanding professional life, while also considering less ordinary issues, such as
one child’s mental health challenges and another’s run-ins with the law.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fiu.edu/oai:digitalcommons.fiu.edu:etd-4846 |
| Date | 20 March 2018 |
| Creators | Losak, Bonnie |
| Publisher | FIU Digital Commons |
| Source Sets | Florida International University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations |
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