Autobiography, philosophical inquiry and ordinary conversation blur together in Sheila Heti’s literary fiction. How Should a Person Be? follows a writer named Sheila and her friendship with painter Margaux as questions about art, envy, sex and self-invention become part of the book’s loose structure. Motherhood turns the decision about whether to have a child into a prolonged meditation using chance procedures, dialogue and self-questioning rather than a conventional plot. Pure Colour moves further into fable and metaphysics through a woman mourning her father in a world imagined as God’s first draft. Heti’s prose is intimate, curious and formally playful, often allowing uncertainty to remain unresolved. In discovery terms, this places the work across autofiction, philosophical fiction, feminist literary writing and experimental contemporary novels. Read more Less
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