Birthmarks ebook

One hundred days after the birth. Nora lies in the maternity ward, and the belly is still there - soft, empty and strange. In one hundred short chapters, one for each day, Ellen Bruhns tells of the first months of a young mother: of breastfeeding and sleeplessness, of a body that is suddenly someone else's, and of the tenderness and exhaustion that take turns. And as Nora holds her child, she hears herself saying sentences she thought she knew - her own mother's sentences. A precisely observed, physical and deeply moving novel about motherhood, origins and the invisible marks one mother leaves on the next.