Motherhood : A Novel
Author(s): Sheila Heti
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 audiobook 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 audiobook 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 audiobook that will surely spark lively conversations about womanhood, parenthood, and about how—and for whom—to live.
Review(s):
Long-listed New York Magazine Best Books of the Year (2018), Long-listed The Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year (2020), Long-listed Chicago Tribune Best Books of the Year (2018), Long-listed Flavorwire Best Books of the Year (2018), Short-listed Giller Prize - Nominee (2018), Long-listed NPR Best Book of the Year (2018)
ISBN: 9781427298034