A New York Times Notable Book of 2012 "Funny...odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable...unlike any novel I can think of."--David Haglund, "The New York Times Book Review""Brutally honest and stylistically inventive, cerebral, and sexy."--"San Francisco Chronicle""One of the bravest, strangest, most original novels I've read this year."--Christopher Boucher, "The Boston Globe""A vital and funny picture of the excitements and longueurs of trying to be a young creator in a free, late-capitalist Western city."--James Wood, "The New Yorker ""A book that risks everything...Complex, artfully messy, and hilarious."--Miranda July "A really amazing metafiction-meets-nonfiction novel."--Lena Dunham "It is easy to see why a book on the anxiety of celebrity has turned the author into one herself."--"The Economist ""A seriously strange but funny plunge into the quest for authenticity."--Margaret Atwood "Boldly original...Gorgeously rendered."--NPR "Bawdy, idiosyncratic...The title makes me quake with envy. All good books should be called just that."--Chad Harbach "A significant cultural artifact.""--LA Review of Books ""Original...hilarious...Part confessional, part play, part novel, and more--it's one wild ride...Think HBO'S "Girls "in book form." --"Marie Claire"""How Should a Person Be?" teeters between youthful pretension and irony in ways that are as old as Flaubert's "Sentimental Education."..but Ms. Heti manages to give Sheila's struggle a contemporary and particular feel..."How Should a Person Be?" reveals a talented young voice of a still inchoate generation."--Kay Hymowitz, "The Wall Street Journal""I read this eccentric book in one sitting, amazed, disgusted, intrigued, sometimes titillated I'll admit to that, but always in awe of this new Toronto writer who seems to be channeling Henry Miller one minute and Joan Didion the next. Heti's book is pretty ugly fiction, accent on th

Sheila Heti is the author of several books of fiction, including "The Middle Stories" and "Ticknor"; and an essay collection written with Misha Glouberman, "The Chairs Are Where the People Go." Her writing has been translated into ten languages and her work has appeared in "The New York Times," "Bookforum," "McSweeney's," "n+1," "The Guardian," and other places. She works as interviews editor at "The Believer" magazine and lives in Toronto.