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    This document provides information about the book "Black Milk" by Elif Shafak. It is a memoir about her experience with postpartum depression after the birth of her first child in 2006. She struggled with feelings of guilt, anxiety, and doubt about being a good mother, which caused her to stop writing. The book examines her journey from free-spirited artist to dedicated mother, and her search for harmony between her artistic identity and responsibilities of parenting. It also discusses the lives and experiences of other prominent authors who were mothers.

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    This document provides information about the book "Black Milk" by Elif Shafak. It is a memoir about her experience with postpartum depression after the birth of her first child in 2006. She struggled with feelings of guilt, anxiety, and doubt about being a good mother, which caused her to stop writing. The book examines her journey from free-spirited artist to dedicated mother, and her search for harmony between her artistic identity and responsibilities of parenting. It also discusses the lives and experiences of other prominent authors who were mothers.

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    This document provides information about the book "Black Milk" by Elif Shafak. It is a memoir about her experience with postpartum depression after the birth of her first child in 2006. She struggled with feelings of guilt, anxiety, and doubt about being a good mother, which caused her to stop writing. The book examines her journey from free-spirited artist to dedicated mother, and her search for harmony between her artistic identity and responsibilities of parenting. It also discusses the lives and experiences of other prominent authors who were mothers.

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    Black Milk

    BOOK
    NON-FICTION
    World Dogan ve Egmont
    US & Canada Viking (Ed. Paul Slovak)
    2007

    By Elif Shafak Translation Rights Sold


    Arabic Dar al-Adab
    BOOKS Jonny Geller, +44 (0)20 7393 4492, [email protected]
    TRANSLATION RIGHTS Daisy Meyrick, +44 (0)20 7393 4425, [email protected] Azerbaijani Qanun
    TRANSLATION RIGHTS Roxane Edouard, +44 (0)20 7393 4491, [email protected] Bosnian BuyBook
    Bulgarian Egmont Bulgaria
    Publishing House
    Turkish title: Siyah Sut
    Dutch Uitgeverij De Geus

    On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within French Editions Phebus


    German Egmont VGS
    After the birth of her first child in 2006, Turkish writer Elif Shafak suffered Hungarian Joszoveg Muhely
    from postpartum depression that triggered a profound personal crisis. Kiado

    Infused with guilt, anxiety, and bewilderment about whether she could ever Italian Rizzoli Editore
    be a good mother, Shafak stopped writing and lost her faith in words Polish Wydawnictwo
    altogether. Literackie
    Romanian Editura Polirom

    In this elegantly written memoir, she retraces her journey from free-spirited, Serbian Samizdat B92

    nomadic artist to dedicated but emotionally wrought mother. Identifying a


    constantly bickering harem of women who live inside of her, each with her Audio Rights
    own characteristics-the cynical intellectual, the goal-oriented go-getter, the p Available
    practical-rational, the spiritual, the maternal, and the lustful-she craves
    The audio rights are handled by
    harmony, or at least a unifying identity. As she intersperses her own
    Alice Lutyens.
    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.

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