Motherhood, Sheila Heti
Motherhood, Sheila Heti
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Motherhood
A Novel

Author: Sheila Heti

Narrator: Sheila Heti

Unabridged: 5 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2018


Synopsis

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.

About 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on July 28, 2023

every book i read lately reveals itself to be about motherhood, so why not cut to the chase! because of this book, i had something to say when a bunch of people at a work event were talking about Spirituality and Mindfulness instead of sitting there awkwardly and trying not to laugh. and now i'm the......more

Goodreads review by Wynne • on June 02, 2021

The emperor has no clothes people! If you enjoyed this, ask yourself: are you a white, upper-middle class woman who is searching for a long term relationship or already has one? Are you in your "child bearing years?" Do you like things like brunch, Apartment Therapy and iced matcha? I meet all of the......more

Goodreads review by JR is Reading on January 23, 2018

First, the context that I am a big fan of “plotless fiction” as well as autobiographical fiction a la Ben Lerner – so this combined with my particular stage of life makes me the ideal reader for this book. I could not stop reading it once I started. I feel like the conversation that Sheila is having......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on March 24, 2025

I am the right reader for this book. Deeply interior to the point where the protagonist's change was emotional and spiritual, nowhere else does much happen. If you tend to learn when others share their inner developments with you over time, Shelia Heti will provide an artful telling with more curios......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on October 13, 2018

An insightful, charismatic, deeply felt autobiographical novel that centers on the theme of motherhood. Our protagonist, an unnamed woman in her late thirties, feels pressured to have a child from her friends and from a society that values women based on their capacity to reproduce. This pressure la......more


Awards

  • NPR Best Book of the Year
  • Flavorwire Best Books of the Year
  • Giller Prize - Nominee
  • New York Magazine Best Books of the Year
  • Chicago Tribune Best Books of the Year
  • The Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year