Friday, 25 January 2013  Book Review: How Should A Person Be?
How Should A Person Be? By Sheila Heti Published by Harvill
Secker Hardback ISBN - 9781846557545  How Should A Person Be? is
a book that's hard to define. It feels part confessional
journalism, part novel, part play, part memoir.  One thing is
definite. This is a marmite book. There are going to be people
who love it's eccentric ways and there are going to be people
who want the book out of their house. For me, I half way between
the two. There were parts that I enjoyed and there were parts
that made me want to grab the characters and shake some sense
into them.  Sheila Heti has taken parts of her life, merged it
with fiction and become the protagonist within her novel.
Through out the novel, Sheila attempts to answer the question of
how should a person be?  One of the great things I liked about
the book was the structure. Passages of the narrative are broken
up with emails, letters and transcribed conversations. This
gives How Should A Person Be?