Named a Recommended Read of the Year byThe New Yorkerand aNew YorkTimesCritics Top Book of the YearOne ofThe Los Angeles Times's 15 Best Books of the YearOne ofThe New Statesman's 20 Best Books of the YearAnElectric LiteratureandLiterary HubBest Nonfiction Book of the YearA thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author ofPure 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.
