How healing: about motherhood and its ghosts

Number of pages: 147 pages In this small prose booklet by Egyptian poet and translator Iman Mersal, titled "How to Heal: About Motherhood and Its Shadows," Mersal writes about marginal and almost invisible motherhood in the dominant narratives regarding motherhood, which are always framed within the context of perfection, absolute otherness, and complete harmony between mother and child. While Mersal takes brave steps to free motherhood from the sanctity that blinds us from it and places many of its themes and anxieties in the social "unspeakable" category.