![]() I’ve always on opening it wanted to hear it blasted from a loudspeaker.” - Christian Lorentzen, Bookforum … How Should a Person Be? is the sort of diary where the private is put to public service. “Inscribed on her novel are the sexual mores of the early twenty-first century, the arc of a friendship between young women, and a portrait of Toronto bohemia. "Sheila Heti does know something about how many of us, right now, experience the world, and she has gotten that knowledge down on paper, in a form unlike any other novel I can think of." - The New York Times "It's exhilarating to see Heti embrace her contemporaries, fucking idiots though they may be, with such anger, affection, and intelligence." - Prospect She has been called the heir to Philip Roth, or to Joan Didion." - The London Review of Books Reviewers described wanting to throw the book across the room or to stock up on copies to give to friends, sometimes both. "Sheila makes it ugly to clear a space: for novels to be less fictional, for women to dream of being geniuses, for a way of being ‘honest and transparent and give away nothing.'. LISTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE “THE NEW VANGUARD,” A LIST OF FIFTEEN BOOKS BY WRITERS GLOBALLY WHICH ARE “CHANGING THE WAY WE READ AND WRITE IN THE 21ST CENTURY.”ĬHOSEN AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, THE NEW YORKER, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, SALON, FLAVORPILL, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE NEW YORK OBSERVER AND THE HUFFINGTON POST ![]() ![]() NAMED BY NEW YORK MAGAZINE AS ONE OF TWELVE “NEW CLASSICS OF THE 21ST CENTURY.” ![]()
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