A Mother Is Born : A Memoir – Diksha Basu

Description

In this collection of personal essays, novelist Diksha Basu turns the satirical eye of her fiction on herself and on becoming a mother to two daughters, one born in New York and one in Mumbai. She writes about matrescence, anxiety, guilt about asking for help, shifting identity and friendships, postpartum depression and her changing relationship with alcohol.

Not a how-to guide, the book sets out to tell new parents that they are not alone. Its title comes from the Mumbai art installation “A Child Gives Birth to a Mother”.