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

informative reflective medium-paced

2.5

So this book is, I feel like, wrongly marketed as a guide through post-pregnancy depression. I thought I was going into a book about pregnancy in general, how society thinks pregnancy is, vs how it is actually like. This is supposed to be a book about that, but only a small portion of it covers that topic. It is more about women through history who wrote stories and had or didn't have children. And about men they married. So many things in this book were stretched out and I was really bored. I almost DNFd it, but I kept going. I do like the feminism tone that it has, it just nedded something more.