Black Milk - Elif Shafak

After the birth of her first child, Elif Shafak suffered a deep psychological crisis that prevented her from writing for the first time in her life.

While immersed in the psychological breakdown that follows childbirth, Shafak delves into female thinkers such as Sylvia Bath, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, and Alice Walker to help her find reconciling ways of conflict between motherhood and creativity in a patriarchal society.