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Last week’s episode of This is Us had more than one birth story and all the filmy emotions that are usually associated with such scenes ran high. And I thought to myself, that was not my experience at all. And then I read Zikora and it was as authentic to my own experience of giving birth as possible.“Now here he was wrapped like a tidy sausage roll and placed on my chest. He was warm and so very small. I held him with stiff hands. I was suspended in a place of no feeling, waiting to feel. I could not separate this moment from the stories of this moment—years of stories and films and books about this scene, mother and child, mother meeting child, child in mother’s arms. I knew how I was supposed to feel, but I did not know how I felt. It was not transcendental. There was a festering red pain between my legs. Somewhere in my consciousness, a mild triumph hovered, because it was over, finally it was over, and I had pushed out the baby.”Zikora is the prophesy of all our mothers storified.. that we will understand our mothers when we ourselves become mothers.My first Adichie, I found this short story on kindle unlimited and am in love with the way she writes.
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Last week’s episode of This is Us had more than one birth story and all the filmy emotions that are usually associated with such scenes ran high. And I thought to myself, that was not my experience at all. And then I read Zikora and it was as authentic to my own experience of giving birth as possible.
“Now here he was wrapped like a tidy sausage roll and placed on my chest. He was warm and so very small. I held him with stiff hands. I was suspended in a place of no feeling, waiting to feel. I could not separate this moment from the stories of this moment—years of stories and films and books about this scene, mother and child, mother meeting child, child in mother’s arms. I knew how I was supposed to feel, but I did not know how I felt. It was not transcendental. There was a festering red pain between my legs. Somewhere in my consciousness, a mild triumph hovered, because it was over, finally it was over, and I had pushed out the baby.”
Zikora is the prophesy of all our mothers storified.. that we will understand our mothers when we ourselves become mothers.
My first Adichie, I found this short story on kindle unlimited and am in love with the way she writes.
“Now here he was wrapped like a tidy sausage roll and placed on my chest. He was warm and so very small. I held him with stiff hands. I was suspended in a place of no feeling, waiting to feel. I could not separate this moment from the stories of this moment—years of stories and films and books about this scene, mother and child, mother meeting child, child in mother’s arms. I knew how I was supposed to feel, but I did not know how I felt. It was not transcendental. There was a festering red pain between my legs. Somewhere in my consciousness, a mild triumph hovered, because it was over, finally it was over, and I had pushed out the baby.”
Zikora is the prophesy of all our mothers storified.. that we will understand our mothers when we ourselves become mothers.
My first Adichie, I found this short story on kindle unlimited and am in love with the way she writes.
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Flawless Adichie
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 30 October 2020Verified Purchase
Ayo
Brilliant as expected, Chimamanda has not lost her touch. I need more
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 29 October 2020Verified Purchase
Miranda Mc
Short, but well written
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 8 November 2020Verified Purchase
Amazon Customer
Another interesting and informative tale
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 28 October 2020Verified Purchase
Elise Tallaron
Why a short story?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 31 October 2020Verified Purchase
