About this Event
Join us at FRIEDA-Women's Center e. V. as we analyse the book "Motherhood" by Sheila Heti from an intersectional feminist lens. In our new non fiction series we will read books about communities that have historically been subjected to violence and erause, listening to their truths as a political act.
About the book:
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.
Note:
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
FRIEDA-Women's Center e. V., Proskauer Straße 7, Berlin, Germany
