![]() ![]() Her second novel, the acclaimed How Should a Person Be? took as its title a question that Heti tries to answer in much of her work, whether the overt subject matter is female friendship, art-making, motherhood, or clothes.īecause the material she uses to answer that question often comes from her life and the lives of those around her, she has been discussed alongside writers like Rachel Cusk and Karl Ove Knausgaard as exemplars of “autofiction” (a category Heti has said she finds superficial), and her concern with female friendship and how women relate to one other has drawn comparisons with Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet.īut I had not heard Heti speak much about her relationship to Judaism, biblical stories, or visual art, though all feel important to her work. ![]() Frustrated that the years of thinking and writing about this question haven’t produced a definitive answer, she instructs herself to “imagine the questions of someone else, someone with a broader mind-then try to be that broader mind.”įor many readers, Heti already is that broader mind. ![]() She consults her friends, her partner, her dreams, tarot cards, a psychic, and the I Ching. In Motherhood, Sheila Heti’s third novel, the unnamed narrator wrestles with the question of whether or not to have a child. ![]()
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