Nine Months — Paula Bomer

A young Brooklyn mother, shaken at her unexpected (third) pregnancy, abandons her husband and kids and takes off on a cross-country odyssey. Sonia does everything a pregnant woman shouldn't do, engaging in casual sex and smoking weed while on a road trip to retrace her own past and reclaim her sidelined career as an artist. Nine Months is a fierce, daring page-turner of a debut 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.