BLACK MILK PENGUIN — ELIF SHAFAK

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 Yayınevi PENGUIN BOOKS Yazar ELIF SHAFAK Dil İNGİLİZCE Sayfa Sayısı 288 SAYFA Yıl 2012

Postpartum depression affects millions of new mothers every year and like most of its victims Elif Shafak never expected to be one of them But after the birth of her first child in 2006 the internationally bestselling Turkish author remembers how for the first time my adult life words wouldnt speak to me As her despair finally eased Shafak sought to resuscitate her writing life by chronicling her own experiences In her intimate memoir she reveals how she struggled to overcome her depression and how literature provided the salvation she so desperately needed