Motherhood
Ratings22
Average rating3.6
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Ratings22
Average rating3.6
In her late thirties, when her friends are asking when they will become mothers, the narrator of Heti's 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
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Parts are poignant and some parts are so obnoxious (all the dreams and the coin flipping). If I wasn't a 35 year old woman without kids I probably would not have liked it. But I am, so I did.
so so important. it was wild to see so many of my own thoughts and feelings validated through her writing.
A wonderful reflection on motherhood, the pressures women face to become one, and how to reconcile society's expectations with our desire not to participate in motherhood.
I especially loved the concept of a woman's existence as an end in itself, instead of a vessel through which other lives come through. A woman existing has intrinsic value, motherhood is just a choice that can be made by those who desire it.
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