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Sheila Heti

Biography

Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti is the author of 10 books, including the novels MOTHERHOOD and HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE?, which New York magazine deemed one of the “New Classics” of the 21st century. She was named one of the “New Vanguard” by the New York Times book critics, who, along with a dozen other magazines and newspapers, chose MOTHERHOOD as a top book of 2018. Her books have been translated into 24 languages. She lives in Toronto and Kawartha Lakes, Ontario.

Sheila Heti

Books by Sheila Heti

Pure Colour
by Sheila Heti - Fiction

Here we are, just living in the first draft of creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart. In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home for school. There, she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira’s chest like a portal --- to what, she doesn’t know. When Mira is older, her beloved father dies, and she enters the strange and dizzying dimension that true loss opens up. PURE COLOUR tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling and a shape-shifting epic. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.

Motherhood
by Sheila Heti - Fiction, Women's Fiction

In her late 30s, when her friends are asking when they will become mothers, the narrator of MOTHERHOOD considers if she will do so at all. In a narrative spanning several years, casting among the influence of her peers, partner and her duties to her forbearers, she struggles to make a wise and moral choice. After seeking guidance from philosophy, her body, mysticism and chance, she discovers her answer much closer to home.