Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti

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.

REVIEWS

“Some of my all-time favourite writers are alive and working today―Sheila Heti, for instance, whom I admire and love with all my heart.”―Sally Rooney in The 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 think Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti is a future classic. A great concept executed perfectly.”―Zadie Smith, author of The Fraud

PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 978-0374610784
Pages: 224