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How Should a Person Be?: A Novel


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Release Date
July 15, 2025
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5 hours 36 minutes
Summary
A raw, startling, genre-defying novel of friendship, sex, and love in the new millennium—a compulsive read that's like 'spending a day with your new best friend' (Bookforum) This program is read by the author.

Reeling from a failed marriage, Sheila, a twentysomething playwright, finds herself unsure of how to live and create. When Margaux, a talented painter and free spirit, and Israel, a sexy and depraved artist, enter her life, Sheila hopes that through close—sometimes too close—observation of her new friend, her new lover, and herself, she might regain her footing in art and life.

Using transcribed conversations, real emails, plus heavy doses of fiction, the brilliant and always innovative Sheila Heti crafts a work that is part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part bawdy confessional. It's a totally shameless and dynamic exploration into the way we live now, which breathes fresh wisdom into the eternal questions: What is the sincerest way to love? What kind of person should you be?

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.
How Should a Person Be?: A Novel

How Should a Person Be?: A Novel

Author: Sheila Heti
Read by: Wai Kin Chan
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