Motherhood: A Novel

"The narrator of Sheila Heti’s profound and provocative novel wrestles with the question of whether to have a baby. “You can’t create a person dishonestly,” she says as she interrogates herself, with the help of some coin-flipping. Some readers may be tempted to approach Motherhood as a suspense novel – will she or won’t she? I don’t recommend this. The narrator’s hard thinking is the joy of this book – a generous meditation on motherhood, daughterhood, relationships and the power of writing and art. “Living one way is not a criticism of every other way of living,” Heti writes. “Other lives should be able to exist alongside our own without any threat or judgment at all.”"