{"product_id":"the-voice-of-sulina-9781954600607","title":"The Voice of Sulina","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn epic road trip along the Danube offers an immersive narration of the myths and stories of this watery ecology in concert with the author's experience of pregnancy and childbirth.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePursued by torrential rain, an emerging writer journeys across Europe to encounter the wilds of the Danube River and study its folklore. Accompanied by her husband, Leon, and and traveling in an old camper van, she explores the stories the river brings to light about ecology, pregnancy, and the historical narratives of femininity, weaving together reflections on motherhood, physicality, mythology, and time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the Danube downstream, from Black Forest to Black Sea, she sets out to realize her novel, which blends autofiction with reality; and to consider pregnancy and motherhood through the lens of the river’s birth and death, a continual cycle of incarnation that reflects human fertility and decay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Maggie Nelson, Anne Carson, Kate Zambreno, Hélène Cixous, and Jazmina Barrera, this meditation on motherhood and writing joins a chorus of forces, from gender roles and the pressures of a family road trip to wildness, weather, and imagination.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anneleen Van Offel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49221784240379,"sku":"9781954600607","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-voice-of-sulina-9781954600607","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}