A provocative novel about the desire and duty to procreate, from the author of the critically acclaimed How Should A Person Be?
Sheila Heti is the author of ten books, including the novels Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?, which New York magazine deemed one of the 'New Classics of the twenty-first century' and which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She was named one of the 'New Vanguard' by the New York Times book critics, who, along with a dozen other magazines and newspapers, chose Motherhood as a best book of the year. Her novels have been translated into twenty-four languages. She is the former interviews editor of The Believer magazine. She lives in Toronto.
Likely to become the defining literary work on the subject.
*Guardian*
Probing, psychologically unafraid, witty.
*Financial Times*
If you are an underliner, as I am, your pen may go dry . . .
Indeed, Heti always seems to be drawing from a paranormally deep
well.
*The New York Times*
Brave and funny... Heti demonstrates the contradictions between
freedom and the tyranny of choice and how impossible it is for
anyone to ever make the 'right' decision.
*The White Review Books of the Year*
A brilliant, radical, and moving book, it is sure to cause the
cultural riot her earlier work has . . . There's a new quality to
Heti's writing in Motherhood. The only way I can describe it is
tenderness . . . Beautiful . . . Surprising.
*The Paris Review*
Heti thinks clearly and originally
*Times Literary Supplement, **Books of the Year***
Motherhood confronts the philosophical questions raised by
childbearing and womanhood... Heti's narrator wants to create -
specifically, to create something that will honour the memory of
her mother and grandmother... Motherhood both documents that desire
and fulfils it.
*London Review of Books*
Motherhood is a poetic, innovative book. It is groundbreaking in
its fluidity, in its recognition of the unrecognizability of
desire, and in its scrutiny of expectation… she introduces a
critical, exhilarating freedom.
*Spectator*
Motherhood is subtitled A Novel, though it's one in which the
boundaries between fiction and memoir are porous and constantly
shifting… Heti is experimenting with literary form even as she
wrestles with the form her adult life should take
*Guardian*
Motherhood is a fiercely intelligent and probing read that delves
deep into the fundamentals of procreating, motherhood and what it
means to be a woman in today's world.
*Irish Times*
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