Katixa Agirre (Vitoria, 1981) has a PhD in Audiovisual Communication and lectures at Universidad del País Vasco. Mothers Don’t plumbs the depths of childhood and the lack of protection children face before the law. Katixa Agirre reflects on the relationship between motherhood and creativity, in dialogue with writers such as Sylvia Plath and Doris Lessing. How could a woman be capable of neglecting her children? How could she kill them? Is motherhood a prison? Complete with elements of a traditional thriller, this novel combines chronicle and essay. To research and write about the hidden truth behind the crime. She takes an extended leave, not for child-rearing, but to write. She is a writer, and she realizes that she knows the woman who committed the infanticide. Another woman, the narrator of this story, is about to give birth. Post, followed by a conversation and Q&A. In this event, the writer presents this novel together with her publisher Chad W. Mothers Don’t (2019) is a novel by Katixa Agirre translated from the Spanish by Katie Whittemore. Spanish writer Katixa Agirre presents her novel “Mothers Don’t” in conversation with publisher Chad W.
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