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Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, And The Harem Within (2007)

by Elif Shafak(Favorite Author)

3.29 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0670022640 (ISBN13: 9780670022649)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: The book touched my soul. Although I don't like fiction, I succeeded in making an exception and see it as a real life experience. Although I am not a writer and by far I will ever be an artist, I am a mum, and the feelings she passed are the same with most of the women. I should have read this soon after giving birth but it is never too late or early to read it. I also admire her courage to express freely through what she passed in the "new born baby" times.
review 2: Elif Shafak is now one of my favourite writers.Through Black Milk, she takes us through her journey of postpartum depression interspersed with wonderfully written diversions to her Self - a mini-harem of six different versions of her and also to the lives of women writers spanning ages and contine... morents.I'd highly recommend this book for women writers irrespective of their views on motherhood. This book despite its reason for creation is a feast to be devoured for those interested in reading about those who paved the roads today we now take baby-steps on. A Must read! less

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