On the other, she does sometimes dream that she has a child, and sometimes when she wakes from these dreams she feels happy. But how can she tell? On the one hand, she has never dreamed of being a mother. He has a child from a previous relationship and no desire for another, but he’ll have a baby with the narrator if it’s what she really wants. She lives in Toronto with her partner, Miles.
The narrator of Motherhood is in her mid-thirties. Should she have a child? And while a woman can keep wondering how she should be for the whole of her life, whether to reproduce is a decision that can’t wait forever.
This question is a problem for the opposite reason: it has only two possible answers, and they’re mutually exclusive. The unnamed narrator of Motherhood, who shares various biographical details with the narrator of How Should a Person Be?, and with Heti herself, is also preoccupied with a question. The problem with this question, as she discovers, is that it’s infinitely open-ended no two people give the same answer, or behave in the same way. ‘For years and years I asked it of everyone I met,’ the narrator says. OL19645017W Page_number_confidence 94.14 Pages 326 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.16 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211102191518 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 376 Scandate 20211029092729 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780099583561 Tts_version 4.Sheila Heti’s last novel, How Should a Person Be?, opens with the question of its title. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:06:52 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA40277503 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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