”Did I want a child? Did I lie in bed that night imagining an eager clump of cells dividing again and again until I was somebody’s mother? Is motherhood really optional when you're a perfectly normal woman married to a perfectly normal man?... This is not to say that I didn't want to be a mother. It's not to say that I did. This is only to say that I'm certain that I was certain the check would come do. . . ✒️ @tayari, Tayari Jones. 📷 An American Marriage + 2020 Reading Jornal. . . 🧠: there were so many themes in this book and one I picked up one was the declining size of the family unit and what that means in real life. I have so many friends that are having similar conversations with their partners... Do we women want children and how many? Now that it's clear there is something is world women can gain besides married with a baby, will women ever want to lay down and have children as they did in the past? Hell, did they even want it in the past? All things to think about. #amreadingfiction #anamericanmarriage #tayarijones #Atlanta #HerstunReads (at ATL) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8ByY_aANcc/?igshid=plndnksv5onl