Motherhood: A Novel
Written by Sheila Heti
Narrated by Sheila Heti
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About this audiobook
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.
Editor's Note
Sincere examination…
A novel that reads more like a memoir, Heti’s “Motherhood” is an examination and then a cross-examination of herself, tackling the question that nags many women as their biological clocks tick down with honesty and sincerity.
Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti is the author of eleven books, including the novels Pure Colour, Motherhood, and How Should a Person Be?, which New York deemed one of the "New Classics" of the twenty-first century. 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 top book of 2018. Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages. She lives in Toronto.
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Reviews for Motherhood
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It was a great but and so needed for those that have not felt an innate instinct to be a mother or are unsure they ever want to be. I would love to see more discussion about this topic and books relating to childfree/childless living.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An intense and interesting book. I could relate very well to the hesitation and indecision, as I have been struggling with that as well.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This book isn’t meant to be read as an audiobook. Author had some key questions that made you think about the pressure of society and traditions but I was mostly confused by the manner it was written. I think I would have like this more in physical format
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic, really loved the writing style and such an interesting perspective.