From the internationally acclaimed author, a deeply personal exploration of the first forty days of motherhood.
'Everywhere in the wilderness I hear the cries of other mothers. I call back to them, asking for help, but sometimes they can’t hear me through their own cries’
A forty-day journey of trial and transformation has meaning in many cultures, including in Savaş’s own. In this candid, tender essay, she charts a path through an unknown landscape – the first forty days of motherhood – in search of herself and the words for what has happened to her, following the birth of her baby.
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'Savaş documents the 'messiness and entanglement' of the 40 days after birth, a period so often completely invisible to the outside world.'
" - Beyond the Motherhood Memoir
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'[The postpartum period is] a cloistered time, and Savaş's book is cloistered: an essay in 40 parts, one for each day, but they are not diary entries so much as scenes, memories, or pieces of research, reflections.'
" - Beyond the Motherhood Memoir
