{"id":27675,"date":"2025-06-11T12:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T12:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scenicrights.com\/projects\/cara-de-madre\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T14:33:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:33:45","slug":"cara-de-madre","status":"publish","type":"articulo","link":"https:\/\/www.scenicrights.com\/en\/projects\/cara-de-madre\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a Mother (Cara de madre)"},"template":"","art_tag":[1042,826,1386,796,860,892,1375,1346,818,1062,1354,1006,1002,862,1076,1074,988,774,1378,1152,874],"genero":[47],"licencia":[17],"localizacion":[],"produccion":[],"subgenero":[654,1417],"tipo":[5],"class_list":["post-27675","articulo","type-articulo","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","art_tag-business","art_tag-class-difference","art_tag-conflict","art_tag-corruption","art_tag-disease","art_tag-family","art_tag-gender-roles-en","art_tag-identity","art_tag-inequality","art_tag-journalism","art_tag-legal-en","art_tag-marriage","art_tag-maternity","art_tag-mental-illness","art_tag-policy","art_tag-poverty","art_tag-power-fight","art_tag-science","art_tag-social-en","art_tag-society","art_tag-spain","genero-drama-en","licencia-propia","subgenero-melodrama-en","subgenero-womens-fiction-en-2","tipo-proyecto"],"acf":{"generos_tax":[47],"subgeneros_tax":[654,1417],"tipo_tax":[5],"tags_tax":[1002,892,1076,1378,1152,988,1074,826,874,774,1386,796,818,860,862,1346,1354,1006,1042,1062,1375],"produccion_tax":false,"licencia_tax":17,"localizacion_tax":false,"articulo__titulo_extendido":"","articulo__extracto":"","articulo__contenido":"<strong><em>A timely story about three women and their complex relationship with motherhood.<\/em><\/strong>\r\n<strong><em>From award-winning journalist Patricia de Blas comes a powerful and necessary novel that explores the many faces\u2014and costs\u2014of being a mother.<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn a fictional Spain that closely mirrors the present day, Carolina, Julia, and Ant\u00eda lead radically different lives. Carolina is a scientific researcher who is firmly convinced she doesn\u2019t want children and joins the new Liberal Party, hoping to change the country without compromising her principles. Julia is a successful consultant with a seemingly perfect life, except for one unfulfilled desire: to become a mother. Ant\u00eda, meanwhile, gave up her career to care for her child and now finds herself in severe financial difficulty. They don\u2019t know each other, but their lives intersect when Spain passes a surrogacy law.\r\n\r\nMonths earlier, after a coalition government is formed between the Liberal and Socialist parties, Carolina is appointed Minister of Health and spearheads the surrogacy legislation. Her goal is to create a fair, non-profit system that protects gestational carriers. But she soon realizes that not everyone in her party shares her ideals, and the political world is filled with shadowy alleyways\u2014of lies, personal gain, and image manipulation\u2014that she may not be willing to enter.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, after much effort, Julia finally becomes pregnant\u2014only to suffer a miscarriage. Emotionally devastated, she begins to unravel, even pretending to be her niece\u2019s mother in front of other moms and nearly suffocating the child in an attempt to breastfeed her. When the media picks up on the new law, and all other options have failed, Julia begins to see surrogacy as her last chance.\r\n\r\nAnt\u00eda, too, is struggling. With no job and a worsening economic situation, she first donates eggs to make ends meet. One day at the clinic, she\u2019s offered the chance to become a surrogate. She hesitates, sparking a heated argument with her husband. But when the bank threatens to repossess their home, the decision becomes clear: this is the only way to get the money they urgently need.\r\n\r\nOn the day of the birth, Carolina appears on national television to announce the arrival of the first Spanish baby born via surrogacy\u2014the child of Julia and her husband, carried by Ant\u00eda. What she doesn\u2019t reveal is that she plans to step away from politics in a few months. In the hospital, Ant\u00eda feels broken, as if she\u2019s lost something she\u2019ll never recover. Julia, holding her newborn, feels no joy\u2014only a haunting question: \u201cDo I look like a mother?\u201d\r\n\r\n<strong>KEY FACTS:<\/strong> <em>Cara de madre<\/em> (<em>Like a Mother)<\/em> is a work of fiction set in Spain, but its themes could easily apply to any Western country debating surrogacy legislation. Told through the perspectives of its three female protagonists, the novel invites readers to empathize with all those affected by such a law.\r\n\r\nWritten with realism and empathy, the book addresses issues such as infertility, motherhood, work-life balance, economic hardship, and family pressure. It also offers an insightful look into the inner workings of political parties and the emotional toll of public and private expectations placed on women.\r\n\r\nContemporary motherhood is a deeply relevant topic with proven audiovisual appeal, as seen in recent Spanish films like <em>Salve Mar\u00eda<\/em>, <em>Lullaby<\/em> and <em>Mam\u00edfera<\/em>.\r\n\r\nThis is Patricia de Blas\u2019s second novel. A journalist and writer, she has worked for outlets such as <em>El Pa\u00eds<\/em> and <em>La Marea<\/em>. 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