It can be about this directly, but I’m also open to whatever books you think would help me get perspective on this chapter of my life. Bonus points if the book frankly addresses the brain changes that accompany pregnancy and/or biological motherhood.
I don’t know anybody else going through this personally, so I feel so alone. I’m hoping for a read that can provide kinship or guidance.
Thanks, sincerely.
by Junior_Razzmatazz164
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Forty rules of love! it’s a novel of Rumi by a Turkish author, Elif Shafak. It has two parallels, One Ella, a forty something women, a housewife tired of being a unhappy wife and mom reads and manuscript, as a part of a job she took up to break routine, written by shams about divine love and all, the second story is about Shams and Rumi and divine love and all, and how it inspires Ella!
Not exactly your situation, but The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is a good one for reflecting on the different choices you can make and how they affect the life you make.
You could broaden your search to novels that show characters changing professions. That could then include novels like Lessons in Chemistry or Legends and Lattes, which both have female protagonists coping with huge changes that impact employment.