Black milk

Reflections on literature, motherhood, and spiritual peace, written by the first writer in Turkiye. After the birth of her first child, Elif Shafak suffered a deep psychological crisis that prevented her from practicing writing for the first time in her life. While she was mired in the psychological breakdown that followed childbirth, Shafak looked to women writers and thinkers such as Sylvia Bath, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, and Alice Walker to help her find reconciling ways to the conflict between motherhood and creativity in a patriarchal society. Stunning writing with its frankness, elegance, and wit