Mireia Gil Mollá is overwhelmed by the solidarity, affection and concern of her friends and acquaintances since last Thursday her home was one of the 138 that burned in the fire in the Campanar neighborhood of València. “There are many people who want to give us money, but we are overwhelmed, we don’t know how to thank them…”, she explains excitedly. That’s why she thought that one way to channel that unexpected help could be to buy her book. And here she connects with another difficult story in her life.
Two years ago Mireia wrote a book to overcome perinatal grief, she titled it That Twenty Week. It is sold on Amazon for 13.99 euros and it is a collection of poems in which she poured out those feelings that she did not know how to digest or explain. The other day, talking to her husband, she thought that telling people to buy it was a way to help them, something that everyone who knows them insists on with a Bizum or donations. “I don’t want to be given free money, so whoever wants to help us can buy the book,” she explains. She prepared a simple message, which her husband shared on social media, in which she points out that “you can help us and in return you get something from us.”
Because what it exposes is the catharsis of a difficult experience. “I didn’t have the strength to do anything at that time, but I wrote it just for myself, to vent. I also didn’t have the energy or desire to look for a publisher because I wasn’t doing it for nothing, but so that the people who know me and love me would know why I suffered. “, says Mireia. “And now I have not done it so that it reaches millions of people, but rather those close to us who ask us how to help us,” she insists on qualifying.
He wrote the book in 2018, but it was in December 2022 when he sent it to be corrected and laid out by a Valencian company, which “helped me a lot to get the book forward” and, finally, to self-publish it on Amazon.
A computer scientist by profession, Mireia has always loved writing. This is how she explains it to La Vanguardia and this is how she presents herself on the online platform, where she assures that her biggest dream “has always been to publish a book. And that dream starts here.” The story is the way she has found these days to respond to solidarity. She says that there are friends who send her image captures of the book purchase, but she still doesn’t know if she has sold many or a few, “I should log into the Amazon account, but I’m not there at all,” she adds.
Taking refuge in her parents’ house to cope with these days of anguish, Mireia and her family are fine. Unlike any other afternoon, neither she nor her young son were home last Thursday. “It was fate or who knows what,” she concludes.
