Book of the month

La hija unica
By Guadalupe Nettel



Cover of La hija unica

An intense novel about motherhood and three different ways of dealing with it.

The novel stars three women, Alina, Laura and Doris, and explores the bonds of friendship and love that are established between them.

Alina is a mother-to-be who, shortly after she is eight months pregnant, is told that her daughter will not survive the birth. She and her partner then embark on a painful, but also surprising process of acceptance and mourning.”
Laura, Alina's close friend, tells the story of this couple's conflict, while reflecting on love and its sometimes incomprehensible logic, but also on the strategies we human beings invent to overcome frustration.
Doris, a single mother of a charming child with behavioral problems. Written with only apparent simplicity, La hija única is a profound novel full of wisdom about motherhood, its denial or assumption; about the doubts, uncertainties and even feelings of guilt that surround it; about the joys and anguish that accompany it.

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