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Freitas, Donna.
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Marriage -- Fiction.
Motherhood -- Fiction.
Spouses -- Fiction.
Women -- Fiction.
Self-realization in women -- Fiction.
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Freitas, Donna.
Marriage -- Fiction.
Motherhood -- Fiction.
Spouses -- Fiction.
Women -- Fiction.
Self-realization in women -- Fiction.
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The
nine
lives
of
Rose
Napolitano
/ Donna Freitas.
by
Freitas, Donna.
Pamela Dorman Books : Viking, 2021.
Call #:
FICTION FRE
Subjects
Marriage -- Fiction.
Motherhood -- Fiction.
Spouses -- Fiction.
Women -- Fiction.
Self-realization in women -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781984880598 (hc.)
Alternate title:
9
lives
of
Rose
Napolitano
Description:
373 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"
Rose
Napolitano
is fighting with her husband, Luke, about prenatal vitamins. She promised she'd take them, but didn't. He promised before they got married that he'd never want children, but now he's changed his mind. Their marriage has come to rest on this one question: Can
Rose
find it in herself to become a mother?
Rose
is a successful professor and academic. She's never wanted to have a child. The fight ends, and with it their marriage. But then,
Rose
has a fight with Luke about the vitamins - again. This time the fight goes slightly differently, and so does
Rose
's future as she grapples with whether she can indeed give up the one thing she thought she knew about herself. Can she re-imagine her life in a completely new way? That re-imagining plays out again and again in each of
Rose
's
nine
lives
, just as it does for each of us as we grow into adulthood. What are the consequences of our biggest choices? How would life change if we let go of our preconceived ideas of ourselves and became someone completely new?
Rose
Napolitano
's experience of choosing and then choosing again shows us in an utterly compelling way what it means, literally, to reinvent a life and, sometimes, become a different kind of woman than we ever imagined."--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Women's fiction.
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