Criminal publishing house: Body, Roles and Memories

In her third novel, Bettina Wilpert narrates the ambivalent experience of motherhood and questions the notions of femininity in a patriarchal society. The protagonist Alex spends a weekend with her mother in a Bavarian village – for the first time without her one-year-old child. While she is confronted there with her own past and growing up in the Catholic-influenced province, she reflects on her relationship with her body, her expectations of m…