![]() ![]() However, at times, we seek more than just questions from her. With relatable queries like, “How could I castrate my mind–neuter it!–and build up a resistance to know what was mine from what was everyone else’s, and finally be in the world in my own way?,” Heti easily resonates with her readers. With chapter titles like What Is Empathy? and What Is Love?, Heti attempts to explore the meaning of life and the central emotions associated with it in an organic way. But, of course, the book is about so much more than that. ![]() Told in an experimental format reminiscent of a playwriting style (Heti was originally going to pursue this medium), Heti tells the not so epic tale of her friendship with artist Margaux Williamson and the ways in which Heti fucks up the rapport with her general neuroses and weirdnesses. Although this is not Heti’s first literary work (she previously released a collection of short stories called The Middle Stories, as well as a novella called Ticknor), Heti is perhaps delving into a philosophical examination that she isn’t quite prepared to see all the way through. The acclaimed debut novel of Sheila Heti, How Should A Person Be? asks a bold, sweeping question that never really gets answered by the time you’re done reading the book. ![]()
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