• Are you looking for modern, raw, and daring literature that shakes you up?
• Do you want to read about the body, religion, desire, and guilt, without filters?
• Are you not afraid of texts that bare themselves – and your own self?

A manifesto of the female experience written with anguish, irony, and truth. Small, poetic fragments that capture the thoughts of a woman who smokes within the suffocating role imposed upon her. The Virgin Mary of the title is both a symbol and a cry: the mother, the daughter, the lover, the atheist, the saint, all of them together and yet none of them.

• Literary monologic poems or prose – confessions of women about motherhood, the body, faith, and everyday life
• The explosive coexistence of religious iconography and feminist discourse
• Humor, anger, tenderness, sarcasm – all sharp, written "with a knife"
• Texts that challenge you to reread them aloud

It is not just a collection. It is a call for you to say everything you are hiding in your own bathroom. To give voice to exhaustion, to anger, to the beauty that found no place elsewhere. It is the Virgin Mary who comes down from the icon stand and tells you: "I know. I feel the same."

Alexandra K* (Corfu, 1985) is a playwright, screenwriter, and prose writer, while also contributing articles to newspapers and magazines. In 2017, her first novel, "How Sea Urchins Kiss," was published by Patakis Publishers. In 2018, her play "Revolutionary Methods for Cleaning Your Pool" (Patakis Publishers, 2020) was staged at the Experimental Stage of the National Theatre, has been translated into six languages, and was honored with the EURODRAM award. "Milk, Blood" (Patakis Publishers, 2024, new edition) was staged at Little Epidaurus in 2021, commissioned by the Athens Epidaurus Festival. She has collaborated with the Greek National Opera on the librettos for the productions Strella and La Belle Helene. She was selected as a writer-in-residence at the International Writers Program of the University of Iowa in 2021. She has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Thessaloniki Film Festival.