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The power of female friendship
I say simple because I can't Show put into words the great impression I had when reading it. My smile was present as I turned and turned its pages (some of them illustrated). Such a moving story in which the female friendship has been the main theme. The author touched on topics so silenced and forgotten that she didn't even realize how essential it is to make them fly.
The book was created by Carmen G. de la Cueva and Ana Jarén who together knew how to combine the perfect balance between their voices of love and a continuous story of creation and originality in every step they took.
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His metaphors throughout the work helped me empathize with those writers' voices that they gave his body to his family and his soul was saved in books. Different writers, bodies scattered in space that remain faithful to the feeling of taking refuge in the pages they write.
The author paid special attention to the feelings, darkness and context of each of them. All united by a passion, but separated by that ghost that haunts them: “the angel of the home”. Located in an unfavorable context for them, but essential to understand the evolution that Spain has witnessed in the role of women.
Intended for those who were not enough to dedicate themselves to the kitchen, the minutes when their children fell asleep, the wedding and the trousseau that their mothers made for them were not enough. Nothing was enough for them, they wanted to be swallows in a world full of hunters. They were those beings that everyone's silence did not consume them.
A phrase that stood out to me in the book has to do with the support they needed from each other to lovingly produce their writings, the thread of friendship was always sewn into each of their pens. “With the help that letters and memories offer us, we begin to understand how strange the effort it takes to produce a work of art is, and what protection and support the minds of artists need.” Virginia Lobo, Kill the home angel.
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