In her third novel, the Berlin-based author and radioeins columnist tackles a weighty subject with a light touch and defiant humor: What do you do when your mind wants a child, but your body can't? – Now finally available in an attractive paperback. Kathi is struggling with her doctorate in literary studies on the Brothers Grimm and isn't making much progress. Her best friend Effi is an extremely down-to-earth pediatrician. When Effi becomes pregnant, Kathi makes a decision: She wants a child too – and if it can't be conceived biologically, then she'll take the bureaucratic route: adoption! The wait for their babies forges a strong bond between the two women, and along with them, readers are disenchanted by the fairy tale of natural childbirth, the myth of maternal love, and the fairy tale of Snow White. Lea Streisand's latest novel is a whimsical work about wanting and having children, about being a woman and a friend, and, not least, about the big question: Which idiot actually invented the idea of the 'good mother'? What is this supposed to be? New product