num_pages: 304
description: From the author of How Should a Person Be? (one of the most talked-about books of the yearTime Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring novel about whether to have children.In Motherhood Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with the candor originality and humor that have won Heti international acclaim and made How Should A Person Be? required reading for a generation.In her late thirties when her friends are asking when they will become mothers the narrator of Hetis intimate and urgent novel considers whether she will do so at all. In a narrative spanning several years casting among the influence of her peers partner and her duties to her forbearers she struggles to make a wise and moral choice. After seeking guidance from philosophy her body mysticism and chance she discovers her answer much closer to home.Motherhood is a courageous keenly felt and starkly original novel that will surely spark lively conversations about womanhood parenthood and about howand for whomto live.
language: English
title: Motherhood
publisher: Henry Holt & Company