Irreverent, brilliant, and completely original, Heti challenges, questions, frustrates, and entertains in equal measure. Her novel, How Should a Person Be: A Novel from Life (Henry Holt & Co), is novel and journal, a how-to book and a philosophical treatise. Part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part vivid exploration of the artistic and sexual impulse, How Should a Person Be? earned Heti comparisons to Henry Miller, Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, and Flaubert, while shocking and exciting readers with its raw, urgent depiction of female friendship and of the shape of our lives now. The women in the house knew it and so did the children. These are some of our favorite first lines of books, with explanations why they rank among the very best. publication, Sheila Heti’s “breakthrough novel” (Chris Kraus, Los Angeles Review of Books) is an unabashedly honest and hilarious tour through the unknowable pieces of one woman’s heart and mind. When an author gets it right, though, the best first lines of books are not a choice at all, but a capturing. “Brutally honest and stylistically inventive, cerebral, and sexy.”-San Francisco ChronicleĪ New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Huffington Post Best Book of the YearĪ 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)īy turns loved and reviled upon its U.S. “Funny.odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable.unlike any novel I can think of.”-David Haglund, The New York Times Book Review
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