A review by aliciagriggs
Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within by Elif Shafak

2.0

I wanted to like this so much more than I did. It was only in the "okay" category. I liked when she wrote about different women and their experience of motherhood (or decision not to be a mother) and a writer, but I found the different "harem within" parts incredibly tedious and annoying. Ended up skipping these parts.
Perhaps this book would mean more to me if I was a mother but then again the whole reason I read this was to get a perspective of motherhood and postnatal depression. It didn't do it for me, I'm afraid.