Motherhood / Sheila Heti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heti, Sheila, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood--Fiction.

Motherhood.

FICTION / Women.

FICTION / Literary.

Local Subjects:

FICTION / Women.

FICTION / Literary.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Other Format:

Online version: Heti, Sheila, 1976- Motherhood.

ISBN:

9781627790772

1627790772

OCLC:

1002831855