โ Scribed by Sheila Heti
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
From the author of How Should a Person Be?("one of the most talked-about books of the year"--TIME Magazine) and the NYT 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,...
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