<p><b>''It made me want to write'' Sally Rooney<br>''A seriously strange but funny plunge into the quest for authenticity'' Margaret Atwood<br>''A classic in the making'' <i>Stylist</i><br><br><i>Sheila''s twenties were going to plan.</i></b><br><br>She got married.<br>She hosted parties.<br>A theatre asked her to write a play.<br><br>Then she realised that she didn''t know how to write a play.<br>That her favourite part of the party was cleaning up after the party.<br>And that her marriage made her feel like she was banging into a brick wall.<br><br>So 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, <i>How Should a Person Be? </i><br><br>Using transcripts, real emails, plus heavy doses of fiction, Heti crafts an exciting, courage