MotherPerson: A Novel

Perfect for fans of Meg Mason, Elizabeth Strout, and Lily King, MotherPerson is an emotionally fearless, brutally funny novel about midlife reckoning, identity, and the long road back to yourself.

Warm, unflinching, and darkly funny—MotherPerson is a powerful literary novel about the cost of becoming, and the courage it takes to remain visible.

Claire has survived everything life could throw at her—addiction, grief, ambition that didn’t pan out, and love that arrived in all the wrong forms. Now, in midlife, she’s done pretending.

She wants the truth.

About her marriage.
Her desires.
Her talent.
And the woman she once promised herself she’d become.

Moving between New York, London, Dallas, Chicago, and a remote artist’s retreat in Taos, Claire begins to unravel the roles that have defined her—wife, mother, daughter, teacher—and confront the one she buried long ago: herself. Along the way, she falls into unexpected love, challenges the quiet ways women are taught to disappear, and rediscovers the fierce, creative voice she thought she’d lost for good.

Told in luminous, incisive prose, MotherPerson is at once intimate and expansive—a novel about reinvention, creative hunger, motherhood, and what it means to claim your life, even when it’s messy, imperfect, and late in the game.

This is a story for every woman who has ever asked:

Where did I go… and how do I get myself back?

Bold, moving, and deeply human, MotherPerson is a book club–ready novel that lingers long after the final page.