Still Born

Guadalupe Nettel

Two friends who swore off motherhood, and a novel that refuses to resolve the ambivalence.

Guadalupe Nettel writes two friends who agreed young that they would not have children, and what happens when one changes her mind and the other becomes entangled with a neighbour’s child. The novel is unusually honest about ambivalence, and refuses to resolve it into a position.

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Dua Lipa

Singer-songwriter and founder of Service95

Laura and Alina are friends in their early 30s living in Mexico City. Both are determinedly childfree, believing that motherhood is a trap of the patriarchy. Then, Alina changes her mind.

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