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title: "How Should a Person Be?"
author: "Sheila Heti"
genre: "Literary Fiction, Experimental / Hybrid"
category: "Literary Fiction"
themes: "The Nature of Self/Identity;Existentialism and Modern Living;The Relationship Between Fiction and Memoir;Creative Struggle and Ambition"
asin: "0887842402"
bnid: "1111872185"
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data_license: "CC BY-NC 4.0"
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# How Should a Person Be?

## Context
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