{"product_id":"how-should-a-person-be-sheila-heti-9780099583561","title":"How Should a Person Be?","description":"'It made me want to write' Sally Rooney\n'A seriously strange but funny plunge into the quest for authenticity' Margaret Atwood\n'A classic in the making' Stylist\nSheila's twenties were going to plan.\nShe got married.\nShe hosted parties.\nA theatre asked her to write a play.\nThen she realised that she didn't know how to write a play.\nThat her favourite part of the party was cleaning up after the party.\nAnd that her marriage made her feel like she was banging into a brick wall.\nSo Sheila abandons her marriage and her play, befriends Margaux, a free and untortured painter, and begins sleeping with the dominating Israel, who's a genius at sex but not at art. She throws herself into recording them and everyone around her, investigating how they live, desperate to know, as she wanders, How Should a Person Be? \nUsing transcripts, real emails, plus heavy doses of fiction, Heti crafts an exciting, courageous, and mordantly funny tour through one woman's heart and mind.\nLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51550357684512,"sku":"9780099583561","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780099583561.jpg?v=1780787280","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/how-should-a-person-be-sheila-heti-9780099583561","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}