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It is rather unexpected, though perhaps notunusual, to see how even a talented outspoken writer and empathetic mother like Alice Walker could experience some kind of estrangement in parenthood " And because many of her chosen writers overwhelmingly western, very much reflecting Shafak's background in women's studies are mean mommas, Shafak is driven to muse rather a lot: "They were two poets in love: Sylvia Plath and Ted HughesShe was born in France in 1971, grew up in Spain and studied in the United StatesYou may want to retryWith 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-beingNeithermodesty nor passivity were hercup of tea." Shafak is determined to make her writers, like her Thumbelinas, get along; to acknowledge that there "is nosingle formula for motherhood and writing which suits us allBut not repress ourselvesThe rest of the volume is devoted to tracing the origins of bestselling novelist Elif Shafak's breakdown, which in turn involves answering a question put to her by a senior Turkish writer, Adalet Agaoglu: "Do you think a woman could manage motherhood and a career at the same time and equally well?" Shafak seeks the answer through aseries of biographical essays on women writers; and a matching set ofconversations with Shafak's "inner harem" of "Thumbelinas", who are tiny, argumentative representatives of her "Big Self": Miss Highbrowed Cynic, who wants to read, Dame Dervish, whorepresents Shafak's Sufism, and, causing all the trouble, Mama Rice Pudding, who wants to have babiesAnd the ruminative, musing habit of mind that leads her into repetition also seems very much her own: "Inasmuch [sic] as I love reading Toni Morrison, I must say I also love listening to her She is the kind of person to whom you could listen attentively even if she was reciting arecipe for pumpkin pieBy clicking Sign Up, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

The problems of motherhood and selfhood are bigger and more political and also more visceral and intimate than this oddly guarded and determinedly upbeat book allowsThe prose is distancing tooYou would sitspellbound just the same." Shafak muses especially long when she does not wish to judge: thus, of Alice Walker's daughter Rebecca's public argument with her mother: "It isa complicated storyWhat would have become of American poetry without Emily Dickinson? She never married nor had a childInfused with guilt, anxiety, and bewilderment about whether she could ever be a good mother, Shafak stopped writing and lost her faith in words altogether

She takes as a starting point her own personal history, her inner world filled with discordant voices.the difficulty of her own choice of motherhood, to write a text full of truth and humourClose After the birth of her first child in 2006, Turkish writer Elif Shafek suffered from postpartum depression that triggered a profound personal crisisIn this elegantly written memoir, she retraces her journey from free-spirited, nomadic artist to dedicated by emotionally wrought motherThe all-usurping rle of wife and mother blocked all their right to creativity

Kate Clanchy's Meeting the English is published by PicadorInstead thereare many paths each equally valuable." So determined, in fact, that when she meets a thinker, such as Simone de Beauvoir, who insists that, on the contrary, there are wrong turnings and absolute dichotomies, Shafak simply co-opts her into her narrative de Beauvoir would have loved to have had a child with Sartre really then stifles her in allegory: "Inmy mind I organise a banquet in heaven Simone de Beauvoir sits in ahigh chair at one end of the table though she gives the impression of sulking, she is actually happy." De Beauvoir if I may invite myself to this feast for a moment is no such thing, but rather thinks it denies the gravity of the question to pretend thatall answers are equally goodShe is also a public speaker, a women's and LGBT rights activist and a commentator who regularly contributes to world publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, Der Spiegel and La RepubblicaShe lives in London and IstanbulShe lives in London and IstanbulDont miss these 40 books to read before you turn 40 See the List AllrightsreservedBecause, in the end, the world of post-partum depression is Gargantuan, not Lilliputian

The Thumbelinas are feisty and fighty, not above military coups and chaining each other to radiators; and when Shafak sets the scene well, as she does for a long night of the soulin Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, where she is writer inresidence, their debates are both entertaining and authentically fraughtHow would literature have turned out if only more women had managed to find a room of their own, that impossible, vital space according the writings of Virginia WoolfHer books include the novelsThe Bastard of IstanbulandThe Forty Rules of Loveand the memoirBlack MilkSeveral of her books have been translated in French of which the most well-known is the Bastard of Istanbul As she intersperses her own 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 parentingTopics Autobiography and memoir reviews Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Google+ Share on WhatsApp Share on Messenger Reuse this content View all comments > Order by newest oldest recommendations Show 25 25 50 100 All Threads collapsed expanded unthreaded Loading comments Trouble loading? View more comments most viewed .Her books include the novelsThe Bastard of IstanbulandThe Forty Rules of Loveand the memoirBlack MilkCould not find the following destination: Get a FREE Books of the Moment sampler! 02b14723ea

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