![]() ![]() Her second children’s book, A Garden of Creatures, illustrated by Esme Shapiro, will be published in May 2022. Sheila Heti is the author of ten books, including the novels Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? Her upcoming novel, Pure Colour, will be published on February 15, 2022. Searching, uncompromising and yet mordantly funny, How Should a Person Be? is a brilliant portrait of art-making and friendship from the psychic underground of Canada's most fiercely original writer. She begins questioning her desire to be Important, her quest to be both a leader and a pupil, and her unwillingness to sacrifice herself. ![]() ![]() Along the way, Sheila confronts a cast of painters who are equally blocked in an age in which the blow job is the ultimate art form. Inspired by her friend Margaux, a painter, and her seemingly untortured ability to live and create, Sheila casts Margaux as material, embarking on a series of recordings in which nothing is too personal, too ugly, or too banal to be turned into art. How Should a Person Be? is a novel of many identities: an autobiography of the mind, a postmodern self-help book, and a fictionalized portrait of the artist as a young woman - of two such artists, in fact.įor reasons multiple and mysterious, Sheila finds herself in a quandary of self-doubt, questioning how a person should be in the world. From the internationally acclaimed author of The Middle Stories and Ticknor comes a bold interrogation into the possibility of a beautiful life. ![]()
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