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  • How Should a Person Be?

  • By: Sheila Heti
  • Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
  • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (18 ratings)

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Summary

Sheila's 20s were going to plan. She got married. She hosted parties. A theatre asked her to write a play. Then she realised that she didn't know how to write a play. That her favourite part of the party was cleaning up after the party. And that her marriage made her feel like she was banging into a brick wall. 

So Sheila abandons her marriage and her play, befriends Margaux, a free and untortured painter, and begins sleeping with the dominating Israel, who's a genius at sex but not at art. She throws herself into recording them and everyone around her, investigating how they live, desperate to know, as she wanders, How Should a Person Be? 

Using transcripts and real emails plus heavy doses of fiction, Heti crafts an exciting, courageous, and mordantly funny tour through one woman's heart and mind.

©2013 Sheila Heti (P)2016 Tantor

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