Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within
- Book
- Dec, 2007
- #Memoir
An acclaimed Turkish novelist's personal account of balancing a writer's life with a mother's life.
After the birth of her first child in 2006, Turkish writer Elif Shafek suffere...
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Number of Pages: 267
ISBN: 0670022640
ISBN-13: 9780670022649
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Nikki VanRy @NikkiVanRy
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Jul 28, 2017
“She intersperses her own experience with the lives of prominent authors such as Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, Ayn Rand, and Zelda Fitzgerald, Shafak looks for a solution to the inherent conflict between artistic creation and responsible parenting. With searing emotional honesty and an incisive examination of cultural mores within patriarchal societies, Shafak has rendered an important work about literature, motherhood, and spiritual well-being.”