A review by showlola
Nine Months by Paula Bomer
4.0
This book isn't perfect, but it would make for a hell of a discussion.
Its the story of a married mother who gets unexpectedly pregnant, goes a little bit crazy, and then runs away. Its also one of the most unflinching and honest novels about pregnancy I've ever read.
Sonia encounters incredibly common and natural feelings and continues to turn the wrong way into them, time after time. She is introspective and narcissistic, and has very little empathy for anyone around her. After the halfway point (and this book is pretty short) it functions as a road trip novel, with short vignettes about very different kinds of people from Sonia's past and the different life choices they made. It gets a little bit didactic in those bits, with wooden dialogue and fast transitions, but I still liked it.
Super, addictively readable with lots to chew on. Anybody that loved Bad Marie or the Charlize Theron film, Young Adult, could really get into this.
Its the story of a married mother who gets unexpectedly pregnant, goes a little bit crazy, and then runs away. Its also one of the most unflinching and honest novels about pregnancy I've ever read.
Sonia encounters incredibly common and natural feelings and continues to turn the wrong way into them, time after time. She is introspective and narcissistic, and has very little empathy for anyone around her. After the halfway point (and this book is pretty short) it functions as a road trip novel, with short vignettes about very different kinds of people from Sonia's past and the different life choices they made. It gets a little bit didactic in those bits, with wooden dialogue and fast transitions, but I still liked it.
Super, addictively readable with lots to chew on. Anybody that loved Bad Marie or the Charlize Theron film, Young Adult, could really get into this.