Motherhood. Heti Sh.

In the novel “Maternity”, Canadian writer Sheila Hethie slowly, piercingly, sincerely reveals to the reader the inner world of a modern woman.

What is motherhood - duty, calling, necessity? At what point does the realization come that you are ready to become a mother?

Such questions have been overcome by the heroine of Sheila Heti for several years now. Fear, uncertainty, pressure from friends and acquaintances... The novel “Maternity” is a long -term thinking about children, creativity, meaning and family, stated by a prolongingly meditative language.