Alphabetical Diaries
Feb 2024 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Named a Recommended Read of the Year by The New Yorker and a New York Times Critics Top Book of the Year
One of The Los Angeles Times's 15 Best Books of the Year
One of The New Statesman's 20 Best Books of the Year
An Electric Literature and Literary Hub Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour.
Sheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decade’s worth of journals, put the sentences in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She cut and cut and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.
One of The Los Angeles Times's 15 Best Books of the Year
One of The New Statesman's 20 Best Books of the Year
An Electric Literature and Literary Hub Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour.
Sheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decade’s worth of journals, put the sentences in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She cut and cut and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.
About the author
Sheila Heti is the author of eleven books, including the novels Pure Colour, Motherhood, and How Should a Person Be?, which New York deemed one of the "New Classics" of the twenty-first 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 twenty-four languages. She lives in Toronto.
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