A thrilling confessional from the award-winning author of Pure Colour, in the vein of Joe Brainard and Edouard Leve.
Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. In the vein of Joe Brainard's I Remember and Edouard Leve's Autoportrait, passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are the alphabetical diaries.
'Exhilarating... it made me want to write.'
- Sally Rooney, on How Should a Person Be?
'Sheila Heti has broken new ground.'
- Rachel Cusk, on Motherhood
'Complex, artfully messy and hilarious.'
- Miranda July, on How Should a Person Be?
'Thrilling, very funny, and almost unbearably moving.'
- Garth Greenwell, on Motherhood
'Courageous, necessary, visionary.'
- Elif Batuman, on Motherhood
'Like Iris Murdoch's novels, Heti's are philosophically intense, although Heti's work is pared down where Murdoch's was Rabelaisian.'
- Dwight Garner, New York Times
Sheila Heti is the author of eleven books, including the novels Pure Colour, Motherhood, and How Should a Person Be?, which New York magazine deemed one of the New Classics of the twenty-first century. Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages. She lives in Toronto, Canada. Alphabetical Diaries is her first book with Fitzcarraldo Editions.