Book description
A mother kills her twins. Another woman, the narrator, is about to give birth. She is a writer and realises that she knows
the woman who killed the children. An obsession is triggered. She takes a leave of absence, not to nurture her baby, but to
write. To investigate the…
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1 author picked Mothers Don't as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
With thought-provoking digressions on famous and infamous mothers, this book uniquely probes the boundaries of motherhood and the taboo. Mothers Don’t asks: how we can balance motherhood with our yearnings for something more?
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