Black milk
A thoughtful and incisive meditation on literature, motherhood, and spiritual wellbeing from Turkey's leading female authorAfter the birth of her fi.. Lire la suite
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A thoughtful and incisive meditation on literature, motherhood, and spiritual wellbeing from Turkey's leading female author
After
the birth of her first child, Elif Shafak experienced a profound
personal crisis. Plagued by guilt, anxiety, and bewilderment about her
new maternal role, the acclaimed novelist stopped writing for the first
time in her life. As she plummeted into post-partum depression, Shafak
looked to the experiences of other prominent female writers--including
Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, and Alice Walker--for
help navigating the conflict between motherhood and artistic creation in
a male-dominated society. Searingly honest, eloquent, and unexpectedly
humorous, "Black Milk" will be widely embraced by writers, academics,
and anyone who has undergone the identity crisis engendered by being a
mother.
