Alphabetical Diaries

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning author of Pure Colour, in the vein of Joe Brainard and Edouard Leve. 

Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. In the vein of Joe Brainard's I Remember and Edouard Leve's Autoportrait, passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are the alphabetical diaries.

About the author

Sheila Heti is the author of eleven books, including the novels Pure Colour, Motherhood, and How Should a Person Be?, which New York magazine deemed one of the New Classics of the twenty-first century. Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages. She lives in Toronto, Canada. Alphabetical Diaries is her first book with Fitzcarraldo Editions.