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.