Motherhood

Over several years, guided by coin flips, anxieties, family history and mood swings, the author grapples with her biological clocks whether to have children or not. Stream of consciousness, part diary, Heti examines the question through the lenses of cultural conventions, feminism, relationship, fulfilment. It gets very personal, as we dive into her relationship. It gets a bit too lofty, when we spend too much time inside her dreams. Yet I liked a lot of what she had to say. Especially about women in the creative field. Women who create. And of being ends in them selves, and not just passage-ways.