My mother on the mirror

Spanish writer and essayist Laura Freixas, author of more than twenty books, presents Mi madre en el espejo, an intimate and deeply autobiographical novel written after her mother’s death.

Through an imagined conversation with a mother who is no longer there, Freixas explores a complex bond shaped by admiration and misunderstanding, gratitude and resentment, affection and frustration.

With remarkable honesty and a vivid, conversational style, the author revisits her family history and the emotional wounds that took her years of psychoanalysis to begin to understand.

Sometimes, looking at our parents means confronting our own reflection.