How Should a Person Be?

Sheila Heti

How Should a Person Be?
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
3 March 2014
Pages
320
ISBN
9780099583561

How Should a Person Be?

Sheila Heti

This title is longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2013.

Reeling from a failed marriage, Sheila, a twenty something playwright, finds herself unsure of how to live and create. 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.

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. It’s a totally shameless and dynamic exploration into the way we live now, which breathes fresh wisdom into the eternal questions: What is the sincerest way to love? What kind of person should you be?

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