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How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti
Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.

Is as ambitious a novel as I have read this year, a brutally honest semi-autobiographical work told in a startlingly original voice. Knowing the human struggle to understand existence and identity has led me to wonder how the topic of homosexuality should be viewed. Cristino writes: I was in the gay lifestyle for more than half of my life until I came to know Christ as my God and Saviour. I don't know a single person who wouldn't benefit from reading Sheila Heti's new novel, How Should a Person Be?, a rumination on art, friendship and the other. On Sunday, our But with millions of immigrants living here for years, doing work that most Americans won't do, there should be a path to citizenship. Existential questions deal with issues of human existence and essence. Bush said, in Orwellian double-speak, they hate us for our freedom and democracy. Article: Washington's Presumption; How stupid does a person have to be to believe this BS? Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be? What does the soul-searching writer do when the concept of the soul--to say nothing of God--has lost its currency? Two new confessional novels try to navigate that uncharted territory. You can now find this blog at voices.mydesert.com/category/opinion “And I understand that people do illegal things, but how can a person be illegal?” Now, 30 years later, I'm still wrestling with this issue. The Community Conversations Blog has moved.