Literature and Fiction · Hardback

Good Mother

Norwegian title: God mor

Nora Kristina Eide

Your child comes into the world, you have carried him, and as you look down at him, nothing happens. Life is not infinitely good and meaningful. Love is not absolute. It sounds terrible, but depressive symptoms in connection with childbirth and pregnancy are extremely common, experienced by around 1 in every 10 women. Resistance, coldness, rejection. Negative emotions that in turn create new negative emotions: shame, self-loathing and anger.

Good Mother is a strong and dark, but at times also surprisingly comical story about postpartum depression, about the newborn and the newlywed and about the world around them.