Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Major/Program
Creative Writing
First Advisor's Name
Julie Marie Wade
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Second Advisor's Name
John Dufresne
Second Advisor's Committee Title
Committee member
Third Advisor's Name
Maneck Daruwala
Third Advisor's Committee Title
Committee member
Keywords
Marriage, motherhood, mental health, bisexual, divorce, police
Date of Defense
3-20-2018
Abstract
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.
Identifier
FIDC004072
Recommended Citation
Losak, Bonnie, "Ambient Light: Essays on Marriage, Motherhood, and Mental Health" (2018). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3668.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3668
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