The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano

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A deeply moving novel about a woman who thought she never wanted to be a motherand the many ways that life can surprise us

Rose Napolitano is fighting with her husband, Luke, about prenatal vitamins. She promised shed take them, but didnt. He promised before they got married that hed never want children, but now hes 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 vitaminsagain. This time the fight goes slightly differently, and so does Roses 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 Roses 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 Napolitanos 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.

A stunning novel about love, loss, betrayal, divorce, death, a womans career and her identity, The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano is about finding ones way into a future that wasn’t the future one planned, and the ways that fate intercedes when we least expect it.