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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.
About the Author
Sheila Heti is the author of eight books, including the critically acclaimed "How Should a Person Be? " and the New York Times Bestseller, "Women in Clothes" (edited with Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton) . She is the former interviews editor at The Believer magazine, and has been published in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, n 1, The London Review of Books, and more. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages. She lives in Toronto.
