Guadalupe Nettel discusses Still Born with Natasha Wimmer

The Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith, Books & Books, Community Bookstore, Politics and Prose, and Third Place Books host Guadalupe Nettel to discuss and celebrate the release of Still Born with translator Natasha Wimmer.
Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic decision to have her tubes tied. But when she announces this to her friend, she learns that Alina has made the opposite decision and is preparing to have a child of her own.
Alina's pregnancy shakes the women's lives, first creating distance and then a remarkable closeness between them. When Alina's daughter survives childbirth-after a diagnosis that predicted the opposite-and Laura becomes attached to her neighbor's son, both women are forced to reckon with the complexity of their emotions, their needs, and the needs of the people who are dependent upon them.
In prose that is as gripping as it is insightful, superbly translated by Rosalind Harvey, Still Born explores maternal ambivalence with a surgeon's touch, carefully dissecting the contradictions that make up the lived experiences of women.
Hosted by the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith, this virtual event was originally recorded on August 9, 2023.
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