{"product_id":"the-nine-lives-of-rose-napolitano-paperback","title":"The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonna Freitas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A powerful exploration of motherhood and feminism... this novel will have readers examining their own 'what-ifs.'\" \u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e Jill Santopolo, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eEverything After\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"[An] inventive novel about love, loss, identity, and compromise.\"--\u003ci\u003eWoman's Day\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Delves deep into love, motherhood, and the complicated dance that is navigating the world as a woman.\" -- Claire Lombardo, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Most Fun We Ever Had\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eA deeply moving novel about a woman who thought she never wanted to be a mother--and the many ways that life can surprise us\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRose 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 reimagine her life in a completely new way? That reimagining 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A stunning novel about love, loss, betrayal, divorce, death, a woman's career and her identity, \u003ci\u003eThe Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano\u003c\/i\u003e is about finding one's way into a future that wasn't the future one planned, and the ways that fate intercedes when we least expect it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Donna Freitas's first adult novel. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eConsent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as books for young adults. Donna has written for\u003ci\u003e The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and has appeared on NPR\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eTODAY \u003c\/i\u003eshow. She's on the faculty at Fairleigh Dickinson University's MFA program and lives in Brooklyn and Connecticut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 8.25 x 5.57 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 05, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766147547424,"sku":"9781984880611","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0a20444afc5aa046e81130af2f1c27de.webp?v=1780286576","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-nine-lives-of-rose-napolitano-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}