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
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.