Nine Months
  • Published: 15 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9781616951467
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $32.99

Nine Months

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We expect a lot of attention for this fierce, daring page-turner of a debut novel--a lacerating response to the culture of mommy blogs, helicopter parents and "parental correctness." A potential breakout from an indie-lit star.

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 Marie

Sonia, 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 do—engaging in casual sex and smoking weed—as she retraces her past and attempts to reclaim her sidelined career as an artist. Nine Months is a fierce, daring page-turner of a novel—a 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.
  • Published: 15 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9781616951467
  • Imprint: Soho Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $32.99
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Praise for Nine Months

Praise for Bomer's collection Baby and Other Stories:

  • "Dysfunctional doesn't begin to describe the marriages in this brilliant, brutally raw debut collection." --O Magazine
  • "In 10 raw and angry stories, Bomer flays the idea of happy little families.... This lacerating take on marriage and motherhood is not one to share with the Mommy and Me group." --Publishers Weekly (starred)
  • "If Bomer's harsh portrayal of modern parenting and marriage were water, it would be transparent, unflecked, jagged ice....She lands firmly between Mary Gaitskill's articulate, unflinching anhedonia and Kathy Acker....Amy Hempel with a twist of Grace Paley. Baby is punk rock for the roundly domesticated." --Bookforum
  • "Words like 'tough' and 'honest' don't quite do justice to the fiction of Paula Bomer. The real housewives of Bomerworld break themselves and break your heart and yet never completely lose their soulful dignity." --Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask

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