Sheila Heti shares 6 books that have shaped her

The acclaimed author of How Should a Person Be? shares the classics she comes back to again and again

Sheila Heti.
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Sheila Heti is the acclaimed author of How Should a Person Be? and Motherhood, an autobiographical novel about the decision not to become a mother. The paperback edition of Motherhood will be published May 7.

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