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.