Black Milk – Aleeef Shafak | Novel

In Black Milk, Elif Shafak records a specific, private, and individual experience, and despite that, it is an experience that millions of women around the world can share with her. Motherhood is the most demanding job in the world, the most dispassionate and farthest from selfishness, and writing is exactly the opposite. So, which personality is her true self? Reflections on literature, motherhood, and spiritual peace, by Turkey's leading author. After giving birth to her first daughter, Elif Shafak suffered a deep psychological crisis that prevented her from practicing writing for the first time in her life. While she was immersed in postpartum psychological breakdown, Shafak was inspired by writers like Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, and Alice Walker to help her find reconciliatory ways to cope with the conflict between motherhood and creativity in a patriarchal society. A powerful writing with honesty, elegance, and wit. It is not correct to consider Black Milk a traditional autobiography; it does not convey the author's life experience, nor is it appropriate to call it a novel, as the personal experience is its foundation and essence. Elif Shafak created in her book a literary genre that blends reality and imagination, narrative and novel seamlessly, a feat only great writers can achieve.