Motherhood

From the author of How Should a Person Be. ("one of the most talked-about books of the year"-Time 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 Heti's 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 how-and for whom-to live.