Just Give Me The Pills

In a large, white-picket dream, a married mother selfishly cries. She has everything she ever wanted - a husband, a house, a business degree, a baby - she is at the pinnacle of the migrant dream. Perhaps she needs to return to her medication, the pills she stopped taking to become pregnant. She was taking them for six years. She wasn't allowed to move out of home so she married at twenty-two. Now she is thirty, and it's as if she is looking at her life for the very first time. She is starting to see things. The creativity she had kept buried inside all her life birthed out with her daughter, and now her words are taking on a life of their own.

From the author of the Australian poetry bestseller, Love and F--k Poems, Just Give Me The Pills is yet another brilliant story told through poetry by Koraly Dimitriadis, and this special illustrated edition includes drawings by Koraly's daughter. Exploring the challenges of leaving a marriage, divorce, co-parenting, single motherhood, Just Give Me The Pills is a story of a woman's liberation from the chains of migrant culture and repression, and the terror or realising all the choices you've ever made are those you were expected to make, and you have no idea who you really are. It's a story of being silenced, of reclaiming your voice, rebuilding, and finding one's true self.

Author: Koraly Dimitriadis
Publisher: Outside the Box Press
Published: 03/26/2023
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9780987277787

About the Author
Dimitriadis, Koraly: - Koraly Dimitriadis is a Cypriot-Australian writer, poet, performer who writes on topics such as feminism, dating, cultural and religious repression, sexuality, the working class, divorce and single parenting. She is the author of the Australian poetry bestseller, Love and Fck Poems. Koraly makes short films of her poems. Her columns have been published widely, including The Today show (USA), The Washington Post, Shondaland, The Independent (UK), Al Jazeera and others. Koraly is currently working on a fictional love story.

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