Nine Months

A bold unapologetic first novel about a pregnant mother and wife who abandons her family in search of an identity that is hers alone. Deliciously dangerously rogue. Marcy Dermansky author of Bad MarieSonia a young Brooklyn mother shaken by her unexpected (third) pregnancy abandons her husband and kids and takes off on a cross-country odyssey in search of an identity separate from her family. She does everything a pregnant woman shouldn''t doengaging in casual sex and smoking weedas she retraces her past and attempts to reclaim her sidelined career as an artist. Nine Months is a fierce daring page-turner of a novela lacerating response to the culture of mommy blogs helicopter parents and parental correctness as well as an unflinching look at the choices women face when trying to balance art and family.