RaveThe San Francisco ChronicleBrutally honest and stylistically inventive, cerebral and sexy, this \'novel from life\' employs a grab bag of literary forms and narrative styles on its search for truth ... For Heti, the personal is philosophical (and the philosophical is personal) ... The novel sparkles with invention, using e-mails, letters and transcripts from ostensibly recorded conversations to break up longer sections of prose. And the prose itself is full of charm, wit, subtle surprises and twisting turns of phrase ... Although the tone of the novel is very 21st century, there is something Proustian about Sheila\'s obsessive pursuit of truth, her wide-eyed infatuation with the world, her writer\'s block and the importance she attributes to seemingly normal interactions with friends. Some readers might find this navel-gazing a bit self-involved, but in a way it\'s the whole point.
