Big Truths: How Sheila Heti Created a Self-Help Novel with “How Should a Person Be?”

By Ella Christoph In “How Should a Person Be?,” Sheila Heti’s new “novel from life,” Heti tracks the everyday adventures of her eponymous protagonist Sheila, who is recently divorced, struggling to complete a play and unsure how she should go about life. Toronto-based Heti, who shares many but not all the attributes of her character, [...]