The book was published by Penguin in the US and the UK, with a German edition published in 2015 by S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main. It spent several months on The New York Times Best Seller list. Motherhood In May 2018, Heti published an autobiographical novel, Motherhood, focused on her deliberation on whether or not to have children. Initially conceived as a nonfiction work, Heti explores the emphasis society places on motherhood and how women are judged regardless of their decision: "...a woman will always be made to feel like a criminal, whatever choice she makes, however hard she tries. Mothers feel like criminals. Nonmothers do, too." The book was named as a shortlisted finalist for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize. LitHub named her novel, Motherhood, as a Favorite Book of 2018 and a New York Times Critics Pick of 2018. Pure Colour Pure Colour, a new novel exploring the human condition, appeared in 2022. It was the winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2022 Governor General's Awards. Personal life Heti lives in Toronto. Bibliography Author The Chairs Are Where the People Go: How to Live, Work, and Play in the City, with Misha Glouberman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2011. We Need a Horse, illustrated by Clare Rojas. McSweeny's Publishing, 2011. Motherhood. Henry Holt and Company. 2018. Pure Colour. Knopf Canada. 2022. Short stories The Raspberry Bush The Poet and the Novelist as Roommates Mermaid in a Jar What Changed Eleanor Essays "I Didn't Like Sitting With the Rattle for Hours." The Brooklyn Rail. 2017. Editor Sheila Heti, ed. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018. Mariner Books. 2018. Contributor Women in Clothes. Blue Rider Press. 2014. Interviews Interview with artist Frank Stella. References External links Sheila Heti Riot Grrrl Collection at the Fales Special Collections Library at NYU Audio interview with Bill Richardson on the CBC Canadian women novelists 1976 births Living people University of Toronto alumni National Theatre School of Canada alumni Canadian people of Hungarian-Jewish descent Jewish Canadian writers Writers from Toronto 21st-century Canadian novelists Alternative literature Canadian women short story writers 21st-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian short story writers Governor General's Award-winning fiction writers