Dua Lipa‘s May pick for her Service95 book club is ‘Still Born‘ by Guadalupe Nettel and translated by Rosalind Harvey. The book follows Laura and Alina who are friends in their early 30s living in Mexico. Both are determinedly childfree, believing that motherhood is a trap of the patriarchy. But then Alina changes her mind. You would think this is where their lives diverge, but Alina’s life is upended with a devastating medical diagnosis for her unborn daughter, and Alina and Laura’s friendship becomes more important than never. Baby Inés doesn’t die as her parents feared – she is still born, despite her prognosis. But Nettel doesn’t shy away from the complex realities of raising a child with profound disabilities. Dua says “it focuses on the transcendent power of love, as the parents get to know their daughter.”
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