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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 novel 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 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. 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 novel that will surely spark lively conversations about womanhood, parenthood, and about how—and for whom—to live.

Here we are, just living in the first draft of Creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart.

In this first draft of the world, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira’s chest like a portal—to what, she doesn’t know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and his spirit passes into her. Together, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis gets boring, and being alive is a problem that cannot be solved, even by a leaf. Eventually, Mira must remember the human world she’s left behind, including Annie, and choose whether or not to return.

Un album tendre et délicat sur la mort et toutes les questions qu’elle pose.

Deux lapins et une chatte vivent heureux dans un magnifique jardin. Une nuit, Hector, le grand lapin meurt. Crème, la petite lapine, s’interroge :

- Où est-ce qu’on va, quand on meurt ?

- Personne ne sait, lui répond Léopoldine, la chatte, mais tout le monde se pose cette question, et tout le monde y pense.

- Quand quelqu’un meurt, il nous manque tellement…

- Quand quelqu’un nous manque, ça veut dire qu’on le garde près de nous.

Leurs échanges permettent au lecteur de formuler des questions justes sur la mort et d’obtenir des réponses apaisantes, tournées vers la vie, vers ceux qui restent. Toutes les créatures qui meurent sont dans notre cœur et deviennent pour toujours le jardin dans lequel on vit… Ainsi, le monde entier est un jardin de créatures.