Sheila Heti

How Should a Person Be?

Unconventional philosophical fiction questioning how one should live meaningfully

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Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti

Canadian novelist whose How Should a Person Be? pioneered a form of hybrid autofiction that influenced a generation. Motherhood and Pure Colour are equally formally innovative meditations on female life choices. She is one of the most formally experimental Canadian novelists.

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