6/27/2023 0 Comments Heti how should a person be![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe that only happens once in your life, she said. Using transcribed conversations, real emails, plus heavy doses of fiction, the brilliant and always innovative Sheila Heti crafts a work that is part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part bawdy confessional. The intoxication Heti felt when she embarked on How Should a Person Be wasn’t there as she was drafting Pure Colour. Her writing has been translated into ten languages and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Bookforum, McSweeney's, n+1, The Guardian, and other. This question preoccupies Sheila throughout the course of the novel. Sheila Heti is the author of several books of fiction, including The Middle Stories and Ticknor and an essay collection written with Misha Glouberman, The Chairs Are Where the People Go. ![]() The novel features Sheila herself as the main character in search of her identity: how a person should be. When Margaux, a talented painter and free spirit, and Israel, a sexy and depraved artist, enter her life, Sheila hopes that through close - sometimes too close - observation of her new friend, her new lover, and herself, she might regain her footing in art and life. How Should A Person Be is a semi-autobiographical novel by Sheila Heti. A raw, startling, genre-defying novel of friendship, sex, and love in the new millennium - a compulsive read that's like "spending a day with your new best friend" ( Bookforum) Reeling from a failed marriage, Sheila, a twentysomething playwright, finds herself unsure of how to live and create. ![]()
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