In the evening the mother flows from the jug

In her debut novel "Am Abend fließt die Mutter aus dem Krug" Virginia Helbling tells the story of a woman who has just become a mother. She experiences the birth as a violent intervention in her life, she has a hard time with the foreign determination and restrictions. The woman relentlessly describes the first hours after giving birth and the changes in her body. The experience of being perceived only as a mother shakes her deeply. Yet she refuses to tolerate this change in herself and in her environment without resistance. A deep hunger for life takes hold of her. In a rousing narrative rhythm, scenes in the confining apartment alternate with walks in nature. Music becomes a constant companion in the text and opens the doors for the first-person narrator to a fulfilled life as a woman and as a mother. The Italian original "Dove nascono le madri" w.