Motherhood
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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.
