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title: "How Should a Person Be"
author: "Sheila Heti"
genre: "Literary Fiction, Introspection"
category: "Literary Fiction"
themes: "Self-discovery, Artistic struggle, Memory, Identity"
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asin: "125003244X"
bnid: "1111872185"
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# How Should a Person Be

## Context
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