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Staff Reviews
An intricate and messy puzzle of self. Heti asks the reader to understand life not as a narrative, but as a mosaic of people, desires, and contradictions.
— Calvin
Description
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker - A New York Times Critics Top Book of the Year - Named Best Nonfiction of the Year by Literary Hub and Electric Literature - One of The Los Angeles Times's 15 Best Books of the Year - One of The New Statesman's 20 Best Books of the Year Sheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decade's worth of journals, put the sentences in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She cut and cut and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.
About the Author
SHEILA HETI is the author of eleven books, including the novels Pure Colour, Motherhood, and How Should a Person Be? Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages. She lives in Toronto.
