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La premisa me interesó muchísimo –un vistazo a la maternidad desde una perspectiva mexicana- y por eso me animé a leerla. Ahora bien, no la considero una mala historia y de hecho, reconozco que captura la atención del lector enseguida y es prácticamente imposible dejar de leerla. Pero al terminar, he de reconocer que me ha dejado un sabor de boca agridulce: no me parece un mal libro pero tampoco he podido entender por qué se le elogia tanto. Octavio Paz. Las palabras en libertad. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México. 3 November 2014. ISBN 978-607-11-3487-5. RF: The UN says that Latin America is the most lethal place for women outside of conflict zones, with femicide and violence against women reaching epidemic proportions in Mexico. Could you explain how this influenced the shape of this book? I read Still Born in less than a day. It is perfect: deeply feminist, wise, funny and alive. Nettel is generous to each of her characters, and in prose that is crisp and light. I love this book.’In many respects the novel is a gripping and powerful exploration of motherhood, and indeed of what it means to live. Beautifully insightful and timely, Still Born is the story of 2 career-driven, adventurous friends in their mid-30s, living in Mexico City. Laura chooses to be sterilised while Alina is desperate to become pregnant with her husband. Soon, both women find themselves in unexpectedly complex motherhood-dilemmas. The novel confronts an array of delicate themes concerning motherhood: the pressures, burdens and expectations and their perpetual impacts, in addition to the complications caused in relationships post-birth. It’s not the kids that annoy me altogether. I might even find it entertaining, watching them play in the park or tearing each other apart over some toy in the sandpit. They are living examples of how we could be as humans if the rules of etiquette and civility did not exist. For years, I tried to convince my girlfriends that procreating was a hopeless mistake. I told them that children, no matter how sweet and loving they were in their best moments, would always represent a limit on their freedom, an economic burden, not to mention the physical and emotional cost they bring about: nine months of pregnancy, another six or more of breast-feeding, frequent sleepless nights during infancy, and then constant anxiety throughout their teenage years. ‘What’s more, society is designed so that it’s us, and not men, who take on the responsibility of caring for children, and this so often means forfeiting your career, your solo pursuits, your erotic side, and sometimes your relationship with your partner, too,’ I would tell them, vehemently. ‘Is it really worth it?’” Still Born follows Laura and Alina, long-time friends who both agree that they don’t want children. Until Alina changes her mind.

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Still Born is a startling novel about whatever it is that drives adults to take care of children, and all the many things that make that care painful and sometimes impossible. There is a quiet force to the poised and deliberate writing. The novel is a deep exploration of affection and vulnerability.’When Laura moves into her apartment, she comes across a pigeon nest in her balcony. Throughout the novel the progress of the pigeons family mirrors the events happening in the book: nesting, birth acceptance, tragedy, disappearance, return. I thought this was fantastic metaphor for child birth and motherhood. Me da muchísimo gusto ver que hay muchos hombres que la leen y tienen comentarios y opiniones muy interesantes. Guadalupe Nettel: "La ceguera determina mucho lo que escribo" ". Diario Correo (in Spanish). 26 June 2014. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021 . Retrieved 24 January 2021. I loved this, I don’t think I have connected with a book as much as this in a long time. Heart-breaking, so much real emotion, and completely thought-provoking that I am still thinking about this book and the questions it has raised in me, about me, this is wonderfully written and beautiful book. It just covers so much like how even if you choose to become a mum, how much is free choice , when society instills and almost brainwashes reproduction, motherhood and how it’s natural, I also loved how it focuses on loss and society’s treatment of disability. I thought the ending was fantastic and symbolic of life itself, we don’t get closure and again that left me thinking