A couple updates…
I have a book review up over at Literary Mama. Here’s an excerpt:
Turkish author Elif Shafak long espoused the motto: “dreams first, family later… maybe,” and her memoir, Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within traces her fraught journey from writer to mother to mother-writer. Early in her memoir, Shafak asks readers a question once posed to her: “Do you think a woman could manage motherhood and a career at the same time and equally well?” For many years, Shafak’s answer to this question was no. As a successful author and self-proclaimed nomad, Shafak wandered the world, writing and publishing in her beloved Istanbul, in the US and in Europe. But her decision to postpone motherhood and wholeheartedly pursue a career was not without inner turmoil.
Also at Literary Mama, an author interview and novel giveaway. An excerpt from the interview:
What is the highest compliment you can imagine receiving from a reader of your book?
For so long, I shared my writing with only a handful of people. Since the book came out, I’ve been overwhelmed by the kindness of readers. Many have taken the time to not only read the book but to write or tell me what it meant to them. That, to me, is the highest compliment. To know that it touched someone, that they connected with it, were moved by it, stayed up late reading it, reconsidered some aspect of their own lives because of it…now I’m the one with tears in my eyes.
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