A review by shanviolinlove
Siyah Süt by Elif Shafak

2.0

A bit underwhelmed by this one. Shafak articulates the multi-faceted experience of something similar to schizophrenia going on within her -- six conflicting alter-egos (?); personalities; mini-versions of her battling through her writing career and her pregnancy. While she is an accomplished writer whose novels I greatly admire, I found her self-heralding a bit tedious throughout the first few chapters and couldn't understand why she spent laborious efforts talking about what it meant to be a writer and a mother when the thesis of this essay was to revolve around post-pardem depression.