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Sheila Heti is the author of ten books, including the novels Pure Colour, Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?, which New York magazine deemed one of the 'New Classics' of the twenty-first century and which was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her novels have been translated into twenty-four languages. She lives in Toronto and Kawartha Lakes, Ontario.<b>Witty, unusual, raw...a powerful read</b>...<b>a classic in the making</b>
Stylist
<b>Original...hilarious..</b>. Part confessional, part play, part novel, and more-it's <b>one wild ride...Think HBO'S <i>Girls </i>in book form</b>
Marie Claire
<b>Amazing</b>
- Lena Dunham,
A <b>shamelessly funny</b> read
Grazia
<b>Funny, bawdy and fiercely original</b>
Easy Living
A sharp and unsentimental chronicle of what it is like to be a 20-something now
Economist
A book that risks everything... <b>Complex, artfully messy, and hilarious</b>
- Miranda July,
Uniquely honest, funny and clever... Heti is <b>superbly truthful and shockingly funny</b> - no words were minced in the making of this strange, brilliant book
- Kate Saunders, The Times
Joyously self-conscious…profoundly ironic…or, perhaps more accurately, it is a production profoundly concerned with how to live authentically in a world saturated by irony
- Olivia Laing, New Statesman
Utterly beguiling: blunt, charming, funny, and smart. Heti subtly weaves together ideas about sex, femininity and artistic ambition. Reading this genre-defying book was <b>pure pleasure</b>
- David Shields, author of Reality Hunger,
<b>Engaging</b>
Guardian
Genuinely laugh out loud
Daily Mail
Utterly now
- Claire Allfree, Metro
Ambitious, assured and ruthlessly controlled…exhilarating
- Richard Beck, Prospect
How Should a Person Be? is a question to be revisited by the author herself, or another writer, or many other writers – but it’s also the question novels were invented to respond to… 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'
- Joanna Briggs, London Review of Books
<b>A timely, gloriously messy, openhearted, clever and beautiful new thing</b>
Dazed & Confused
An unconventional blur of fact and fiction, How Should a Person Be? is an engaging cocktail of memoir, novel and self-help guide
Grazia
A candid collection of taped interviews and emails, random notes and daring exposition…fascinating
- Sinead Gleeson, Irish Times
Provocative, funny and original
- Hannah Rosefield, Literary Review
A serious work about authenticity, how to lead a moral life and accept one’s own ugliness
- Richard Godwin, Evening Standard
An exuberantly productive mess, filtered and reorganised after the fact...rather than working within a familiar structure, Heti has gone out to look for things that interest her and "put a fence around" whatever she finds
- Lidija Haas, Times Literary Supplement
A sharp, witty exploration of relationships, art and celebrity culture
- Natasha Lehrer, Jewish Chronicle
[Sheila Heti] has an appealing restlessness, a curiosity about new forms, and an attractive freedom from pretentiousness or cant…<i>How Should a Person Be? </i>offers <b>a vital and funny picture of the excitements and longueurs of trying to be a young creator in a free, late-capitalist Western City…</b>This talented writer may well have identified a central dialectic of twenty-first-century postmodern being
James Wood, New Yorker
<b>Funny…odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable…</b>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 <b>unlike any other novel I can think of</b>
New York Times
<b>Playful, funny... absolutely true</b>
The Paris Review
Sheila's clever, openhearted commentary will draw wry smiles from readers empathetic to modern life's trials and tribulations
- Eve Commander, Big Issue in the North
Amusing and original
Mail on Sunday