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“What I find so interesting about How Should a Person Be? is the way that the existential quest of the character Sheila—who is also sort of like the author in this autofictional hybrid—is paralleled by the narrative’s quest for the right genre. You see the text working through these different possible genres before it settles on its final autofictional form. It even incorporates skeletal remainders of other genres it’s experimented with, like the aborted play Sheila writes.” Read more...
Beth Blum, Literary Scholar
“She uses real-life friends and their works and her own work, a lot of the book centres around her trying to write a play she just can’t find it in herself to finish.” Read more...
Juliet Jacques, Journalist
