A New York Times Critics Top Book of the Year • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker • Literary Hub • Electric Literature • The Los Angeles Times • The New Statesman 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.