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.

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