It makes sense that an essay collection about feeling “on the outside looking in” concerning traditional experiences of parenthood opens with a quote from Sheila Heti’s – a book once hailed as the defining work about “voluntary childlessness”. Published in 2018, Heti’s book follows a nameless narrator ruminating on whether to have a child. Slowly, agonisingly, Heti peels back the layers of her protagonist, her desires, and the many ways in which society has
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May 13, 2024
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“I hope I don’t appear to others as a selfish person but I have arranged my life so I can be.
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