Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker โข A New York Times Critics Top Book of the Year โข Named Best Nonfiction of the Year by Literary Hub and Electric Literature โข One of The Los Angeles Times's 15 Best Books of the Year โข One of The New Statesman's 20 Best Books of the Year
Sheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decade's worth of journals, put the sentences in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She cut and cut and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.