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Sheila Heti


Canada (b.1976)

Sheila Heti is a Canadian writer, who lives in Toronto. She has an appealing restlessness, a curiosity about new forms, and an attractive freedom from pretentiousness or cant (a freedom not always typical of original or avant-garde writers, for whom a Tom McCarthy-like self-solemnity is more the norm). Her first book, “The Middle Stories,” published when she was twenty-four, was a collection of brief postmodern fables, glittering if slight narratives that often proceed as if they were rewriting canonical fairy tales (a plumber and a princess, a girl who keeps a mermaid in a jar, a woman who lives in a shoe, and so on).
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
February 2024

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Alphabetical Diaries
 
Novels
   Ticknor (2005)
   How Should a Person Be? (2010)
   Motherhood (2018)
   Pure Colour (2022)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Plays show
 
Picture Books show
 
Non fiction show
 
Sheila Heti recommends
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Daughter (2023)
Claudia Dey
"Controlled, lucid, and elegant. Daughter is also a formally inventive book--while still being deeply accessible--about how much we can know about others, and how well we can know ourselves. Claudia Dey describes feelings and struggles I haven't encountered in other novels. I loved this beautiful book."
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The Future Future (2023)
Adam Thirlwell
"The Future Future weaves together so many different wisps of reality, creating something radically beautiful. Here, we see the celestial and the political sharing the same plane, inventing wondrous new ways of understanding history, friendship and time."
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Acts of Service (2022)
Lillian Fishman
"I was completely absorbed by this radical, daring and bracing novel about a so-cold and yet so-intimate world where safety and pleasure can only be found in the most unlikely and unpredictable of places. It is a book of exciting, provocative complexity, and, for me, it made the human creature feel like something new."

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Anthologies containing stories by Sheila Heti
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017 (2017)
edited by
Sarah Vowell
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Flashed (2016)
edited by
Josh Neufeld and Sari Wilson

Awards
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2013) : How Should a Person Be?


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