Harvill Secker
When Margaux, a talented painter, and Israel, a sexy and depraved artist, come into her life, Sheila plunges them into a life experiment, tape-recording their conversations and treating them as specimens in an investigation. Perhaps through close – sometimes too close – observation of her friend and her lover, she might regain her footing in art and life. As she tries to make sense of her experience with a heady mix of anxiety, wit and great conversation, Sheila takes us on a fearless exploration into the way we live now.
Sheila Heti is the author of several books of fiction, including the Middle Stories and Ticknor, and a book of ‘conversational philosophy’ called The Chairs are Where the People Go, written with Misha Glouberman, which was chosen by the New Yorker as a best book of 2011. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Bookforum, McSweeney’s n+1, the Guardian and other places. She works as interviews editor at The Believer magazine and lives in Toronto
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