{"product_id":"9780099583561","title":"How Should a Person Be?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'It made me want to write' Sally Rooney\u003cbr\u003e'A seriously strange but funny plunge into the quest for authenticity' Margaret Atwood\u003cbr\u003e'A classic in the making' \u003ci\u003eStylist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSheila's twenties were going to plan.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe got married.\u003cbr\u003eShe hosted parties.\u003cbr\u003eA theatre asked her to write a play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen she realised that she didn't know how to write a play.\u003cbr\u003eThat her favourite part of the party was cleaning up after the party.\u003cbr\u003eAnd that her marriage made her feel like she was banging into a brick wall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo 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, \u003ci\u003eHow Should a Person Be? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing transcripts, real emails, plus heavy doses of fiction, Heti crafts an exciting, courageous, and mordantly funny tour through one woman's heart and mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heti, Sheila","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54304323961159,"sku":"9780099583561","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0967\/6675\/5143\/files\/9780099583561.jpg?v=1783419749","url":"https:\/\/borderlessbooks.myshopify.com\/products\/9780099583561","provider":"Borderless Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}