McGillis: Sheila Heti's latest novel is pregnant with possibility

“I’m interested in not knowing.”
Sheila Heti has a way, in conversation and on the page, of coming out with statements like that: terse yet dense, flirting with self-contradiction, in this case carrying some of the ineffable qualities of a Zen koan.
The Toronto writer’s work, forming what looks more and more like an ongoing overarching project, is like a grand-scale version of that statement: it’s a literature of ideas and inquiry, filed as fiction though really inh