Mellow-ish

A Love Story in Ten Movements: A Love Story in Ten Movements

von Ada Herman

234 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

'Just say it. Tell me how my desire petrifies you. How I've ruined everything - because female desire always ruins everything. Say it. Tell me I'm too intense. I'm used to it, you'll see.'Mellow-ish is a psychological, sensual, and philosophical novel about longing. It explores motherhood, social alienation, emotional labour, and the fragile possibility of reinventing oneself in mid-life. At its heart is a woman who, caught between caring for others, cultural uprooting and identity loss, struggles to find her voice and fulfil her raw need for rapture.On the brink of depression, a 40-year-old mother and expat shares a hug with a much younger man - vital, talented and full of potential. What begins as a fleeting moment of intimacy becomes an existential reckoning - an awakening at the faultline of love, duty, and selfhood. As Ioana revisits her past - her failing marriage, her professional irrelevance and the ghosts of her artistic ambitions - she must decide whether eroticism can redeem a life, or whether the true act of redemption lies in reclaiming her space in the world.Written in the first person, in introspective prose that blends ironic self-analysis and poetic meditation, Mellow-ish delves into complicated inner landscapes, multigenerational pressures, and fraught relationships, while exploring the thirst for transcendence in a world that values compliance and functionality. Realism meets confessional modernism, and psychological intimacy alternates with precise social observation. Its lyrical style and emotional honesty make it a powerful piece of contemporary literary fiction.

• Themen: Belletristik Biografischer Roman / Autobiografischer Roman
• ISBN: 9781917904131
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.10.2026
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Solis Press