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How Should A Person Be? (2010)

by Sheila Heti(Favorite Author)

3.18 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0887842402 (ISBN13: 9780887842405)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

House of Anansi Press

review 1: At moments felt beautiful and perfect and smart. At other moments painfully pretentious. I think more of a reflection of my mood and patience when I sat to read than the quality of the book. Some passages were so right-on that I needed to close the book and mentally suck on them for a while. Sometimes I felt like finishing it quickly so that I could move on to the next thing. Made me think about art's worth, made me think about friendship, made me judge myself for feeling so internally similar to the narrator (author?). Worth a read, probably worth a re-read.
review 2: Viciously smart, tonally sharp, and fucking filthy throughout. A book that intuits art-making better than anything or anyone I've known before. Just totally stunning--I closed the book while my m... moreouth was making that cliched, cartoonish O-face. I almost stood up and gave Sheila Heti a much-deserved #slowclap.I want everyone I know to read this book but I won't ever loan it out to any of you. The novel as a messy self-portrait and as a natural disaster. If it were a song, it'd be Neko Case's "This Tornado Loves You." less

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