A review by dianametzger
How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti

4.0

This book floored me in a lot of ways: clever, insightful writing and really bold ideas. This is the best quasi-memoir, more so millennial philosophy and psych book that I've read in quite some time. Asks all the right questions and doesn't promise answers, but gives a lot to think about it the end. Truly about a woman in her late twenties looking at the people around her, trying to learn from them exactly how a person should be--in their own lives and in the eyes of those around them. No wonder Heti is interviews editor at The Believer; what a perfect fit.