Books by Sheila Heti

Motherhood treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence, wit and originality that have won Sheila Heti international acclaim.

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013 Sheila's twenties were going to plan. 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.

On a cold, rainy night, an aging bachelor named George Ticknor prepares to visit his childhood friend Prescott, a successful man who is now one of the leading intellectual lights of their generation. He sets out for the Prescotts' dinner party - a party at which he'd just as soon never arrive.

"Hvordan skal man være som menneske?" er et råt, ærligt, provokerende og morsomt portræt af en ung kvinde og kunstner i et miljø, hvor drømme, ambitioner, sex og personlig formåen konstant er til debat. Sheila skriver blandt andet om forholdet til veninden Margaux og om elskeren Israel, der skubber til hendes seksuelle grænser. Samtidig forsøger Heti at svare på titelspørgsmålet i kortere tekster om hvad venskab, kærlighed, frihed, empati, ægteskab og skæbne er. Sheila Heti er blevet rost for at fange tidsånden perfekt i sin flimrende og rå prosa og er blevet kaldt det litterære svar på HBO-serien "Girls".