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Sheila Heti Talks About How a Person Should Be
In How Should a Person Be?, Sheila Heti’s latest book, a character named Sheila Heti struggles to finish writing a play. This happened to the real Sheila Heti, who, like the character, grew up in Toronto, currently resides in the west end, and was commissioned to write a play for Toronto’s Nightwood Theatre, a project she eventually abandoned. Yes, the book’s main character is named Sheila, the crux of the story actually happened, and many of the people she encounters are real, but the book itself is not a memoir. Nor is it fictional.
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