PAULA BOMER
Authors - A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Nine Months (2012)
If you are a pregnant woman who spends her days daydreaming about the moment you will hold your new baby, this is not the book for you. The author introduces us to Sonia, a Brooklyn mother of two who find herself pregnant with her third child. Overwhelmed by the idea of raising another child, Sonia abandons her husband and two children during her last trimester and takes off on a road trip. She smokes, has unprotected sex with a stranger at a reststop and visits an ex-boyfriend during the trip. Finally, her impending birth forces her to choose her future. As a mother of three, I thought I could sympathise with Sonia's overwhelming fear of failing as a mother, however, the author made Sonia such an unlikeable and selfish character that I couldn't relate at all. (AO)
