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Shortlisted for the Giller Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by
The New York Times, New York Magazine,
Vulture (#1 of 2018),
NPR,
Financial Times,
The Times Literary Supplement,
Chicago Tribune, Bustle, Lit Hub, Refinery29, Bookforum, and Top Shelf
“Sheila Heti’s book seems likely to become the defining literary work on the subject . . . It’s hard to do justice to its complexity. This is less a book than a tapestry–a finely wrought work of delicate art.”–The Guardian
From the author of How Should a Person Be? comes a daring novel about whether or not 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.
Author: Sheila Heti
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: 5/7/2019
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.6 lbs
Size: 8.1″ H x 5.3″ L x 0.9″ W
ISBN: 9781250214782
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