How Should A Person Be? - Sheila Heti

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“A new kind of book and new kind of person. A book that risks everything -- shatters every rule we women try to follow in order to be taken seriously -- and thus is nothing less than groundbreaking: in form, sexually, relationally and as major literary work. With this complex, artfully messy and hilarious novel, Heti has done the rare and generous thing of creating more room for the rest of us. This is how a person should be.” - Miranda July

Named by New York Magazine as one of the twelve “new classics of the 21st century.” Chosen as a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Republic, and other places.

Translated into Bulgarian, Danish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

Read reviews in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review and Bookforum.