Jewel Louise’s Reviews > The Water Women: A Novel > Status Update

This book hits home for me. The gift of a daughter is such a blessing. The things you decide that you want to do different, the love you want to share, the fear of getting it right. Also, the grief of trying for years to add to your family but never being able to. The loss of 2 babies over the years and never lining up to have more while watching others. Truly understanding the gift of having children.

Its a hard thing when a woman struggles to have children and the only thing they get is to watch others have children..easily.

Its sad that Zaneta is so hard on her daughter - I understand it but the gift of being a water woman becomes a burden with the way her mother is going about it. It loses its beauty and appeal. Its more of a chore. Its another product of the war that her mother became the way she was.

The pull to experience other traditions and make your own way as a young adult happens - most do - a lot eventually come back to "home"

The way the soldiers have a removed sense of humanity will never stop surprising me. Its like a defect, a loss of self....to not even be able to see a human as a human is beyond me no matter their lineage.

I dont know if as a mother I could separate myself from my children in a situation like this. I would either want to keep them with me and fight knowing they were ok or I would figure out how to go with them. Either way I could not be separated from them.

I feel like this book is going to hurt me in a few ways. Its a sweet slow story still so far with glimpses of trouble so eeeee

At 18 - worrying about never having children is such a real worry for some women...and hearing "we have "time" doesn't help" - The pain of losing a child before birth stings in a different way. Its an almost. Then to have years go by with no children - the word time becomes a silent insult. I feel for her.

This is beautiful book so far. Slow? Sure, but the pace is good and slow for a reason - its a slow life - a comfortable life - so far.