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La Hija Unica by Guadalupe Nettel
Still Born | La hija única is the modern telling of the career women who want to have kids too or don’t want to and all the people who think they should let them know what they think about it.
Two women’s friendship has been strengthened by their mutual, albeit independent, decision to not have children and focus on their career. Alina & Laura find themselves treading new ground when Alina ~confesses~ she and her husband have been trying to conceive. In a refreshing take on female solidarity, Alina doesn’t make her friend feel as if she’s “gone back on her word”, she is there for her in every way and through all the struggles that follow. Laura after conceiving eventually returns to work and hires a full-time nanny, leading to our narrator to dig through the complicated feelings of guilt when we surrender care of our child to another.
Meanwhile, Alina has become the pillar of support for a struggling single mom and her troubled son. Alina forms an unlikely attachment to the son without ever verbalizing that she has unconsciously become a mother-figure for him.
The book is a fantastic gift of modern motherhood, female friendships, the duality of family and career, and most of all the pressures of society on women.
Weeks later and I still have scenes playing in my mind that made an impression on me. A novel that will stick you long after you’ve finished.
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Two women’s friendship has been strengthened by their mutual, albeit independent, decision to not have children and focus on their career. Alina & Laura find themselves treading new ground when Alina ~confesses~ she and her husband have been trying to conceive. In a refreshing take on female solidarity, Alina doesn’t make her friend feel as if she’s “gone back on her word”, she is there for her in every way and through all the struggles that follow. Laura after conceiving eventually returns to work and hires a full-time nanny, leading to our narrator to dig through the complicated feelings of guilt when we surrender care of our child to another.
Meanwhile, Alina has become the pillar of support for a struggling single mom and her troubled son. Alina forms an unlikely attachment to the son without ever verbalizing that she has unconsciously become a mother-figure for him.
The book is a fantastic gift of modern motherhood, female friendships, the duality of family and career, and most of all the pressures of society on women.
Weeks later and I still have scenes playing in my mind that made an impression on me. A novel that will stick you long after you’ve finished.
Follow me on Instagram for more bookish content, @celestes.bookshelf