Guadalupe Nettel's fourth book, Still Born, explores one of life's most important choices?having kids or not?with her trademark warmth and wisdom. Alina and Laura are two independent, career-focused women in their mid-thirties who have not planned their futures around having children. Alina is intrigued to the concept of having children over time, despite Laura's dramatic decision to have herself sterilised. Alina's pregnancy encounters difficulties, while Laura grows attached to her neighbor's son, forcing both women to confront the complexities of their feelings. Guadalupe Nettel examines parental ambivalence with a surgeon's touch in prose that is both engrossing and illuminating, meticulously deconstructing the paradoxes that constitute it.