Black Milk

Black Milk is not just a journey through the experience of postpartum depression or the autobiography of a creative mother who happens to have her pen stop producing words when she gives birth to her child. Multiple entities deprive her of peace, serenity, and contentment and make her both of you, Shafak writes, in constant obsession about the path she neglected to choose. In addition to the fun, lightness of spirit, and wit in this book, it helps us women to reconcile with our fragmented selves into ourselves and ourselves in a manner that does not evoke distress. Elif Shafak writes with an innocence that is similar to the innocence of cartoons that portray everyone as innocent or human in the end and make us sympathize with them.