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Ambient Light: Essays On Marriage, Motherhood, And Mental Health, Bonnie Losak
Ambient Light: Essays On Marriage, Motherhood, And Mental Health, Bonnie Losak
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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 …