Alphabetical Diaries [Paperback]

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A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author ofPure Colour.

Sheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decades 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.

Sheila Hetiis the author of eleven books, including the novelsPure Colour,Motherhood,andHow Should a Person Be?, whichNew Yorkdeemed one of the New Classics of the twenty-first century. She was named one of the New Vanguard by theNew York Timesbook critics, who, along with a dozen other magazines and newspapers, choseMotherhoodas a top book of 2018. Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages. She lives in Toronto.

Some of my all-time favourite writers are alive and working todaySheila Heti, for instance, whom I admire and love with all my heart.
Sally Rooney inThe Irish Times

Sorting through 10 years worth of her own journal entries, Sheila Heti embarks on a grand project to rearrange them in novel ways to make new meaning. Rather than a cosmetic endeavour,Heti births something far more profound, at times redefining the very idea of writing.
Chandreyee Ray,Vogue

I thinkAlphabetical Diariesby Sheila Heti is a future classic. A great concept executed perfectly.
Zadie Smith, author ofThe Fraud

Heti has definitely produced a deliberately weird experiment, but hearing it oul“-