Book of the month
La hija unica
By Guadalupe Nettel
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.