A deeply moving novel about a woman who thought she never wanted to be a mother--and the many
ways that life can surprise us In every woman there are many stories . . . Rose 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. 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. A stunning novel about love loss betrayal divorce death a woman's career
and her identity The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano 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.
