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Linea Nigra

Jazmina Barrera

4.41 AVERAGE

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Everything that Barrera writes is a gem, shining and sharp. I didn’t end up marking my favorite parts, because every page would have been dog-eared. Also, A+ to the publisher for making this book—which specifically says that slim volumes are the only ones that can be held while breastfeeding—such a slim, handheld thing.
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When I bought this book at Dog Eared Books in San Francisco, the cashier (a perfectly pierced person with the most beautiful head of hair I've ever seen) said it was his favorite book he had read all year. Barrera explores pregnancy and motherhood through art, poetry, and other literature. She honors the complex emotions of motherhood and writes pregnancy as art. I'm not a mother but I can see how this piece of literature could provide profound comfort to any pregnant person.

Credo che sia stato noioso e difficile per me da capire non essendo madre e non avendo provato la “gioia” del parto .
Le barriere sociali che ancora ci sono in alcuni stati (compresa purtroppo l’Italia) riguardo allattare i figli in pubblico fanno schifo. E le parole che le persone rivolgono alle madri fanno ancora più schifo.
Se dobbiamo leggere per educarci e sensibilizzarci allora questo libro aiuta .

Ottima la bibliografia alla fine dei libri letti dalla Barrera durante l’allattamento di Silvestre.

"Pensé: todo lo que escriba en estos meses, todo lo que haga, pero principalmente todo lo que escriba, lo escribimos los dos juntos. Tan juntos como se puede estar: uno en el centro de la otra."

Una belleza de texto, muy íntimo; se clasifica como un ensayo-novela, pero es cierto que tiene más un formato de diario, cosa que me agrado muchísimo. Jazmina nos lleva en el recorrido de la maternidad de una forma muy cercana y nos cuenta todo lo que descubre con ella, todo lo que siente.
Las referencias me gustaron, incluso me motivan a querer leer algunas de las lecturas que menciona.
Es un libro tan cortito pero que no quería terminar, quería seguir indagando más en ello, seguir aprendiendo más, me hizo apreciar la maternidad aún más.


"La parte de la maternidad que siempre me ha dado más miedo es su eternidad." Sheila Heti


Beautiful collection on pregnancy and motherhood.
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In the challenging early months of motherhood, I fantasized about writing something like this. It rang very true to my experience, the combination of fragmentation and expansive feelings.