Her position also lends itself to a primal fear: What if she is making a choice she will always regret? “Motherhood” floats, as did Heti’s excellent novel “How Should a Person Be?” (2012), somewhere between fiction and nonfiction. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“If no one had told me anything about the world, I would have invented boyfriends,” Heti’s narrator writes. I would not have invented child-rearing.”This book is endlessly quotable, and a perfect review would be nothing but quotations. In the matter of children, Heti’s narrator resembles Sula, the protagonist of Toni Morrison’s 1973 novel of the same name.

Source: New York Times April 30, 2018 18:00 UTC