![]() ![]() They are destined to expose every part of themselves, so the rest of us can know what it means to be human. ![]() They are the ones who live their lives not just as people but as examples of people. Then there are those who cannot put them on. And even if they wanted to, couldn't take them off. Most people, she writes, live their entire lives with their clothes on. Here's a sample of Heti's philosophy from this book. Sheila Heti seems to have done them one better in this book, making an ugly confessional novel both funny and pathetic, heroic and unassuming at the same time. ![]() Meanwhile, her painter friends up in Toronto are taking part in an ugly painting contest, trying to make the ugliest canvas the most talented of them can produce. She's trying to write a play and not doing all that well with it. The narrator, named after the author, creates an intensely personal and ribald and down and dirty investigation of her life as a writer, as a wife and then as a young divorced woman, as a lover and as a devoted, if sometimes disturbing, friend. A novel from life, as Sheila Heti calls it. It's called "How Should a Person Be?" Here's Alan Cheuse with our review.ĪLAN CHEUSE, BYLINE: Here's the most interesting, if ungainly, novel I've read recently. The young Toronto-based writer Sheila Heti has a new novel out. From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. ![]()
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