**A new novel about art, love, death, and time from the author of
Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?
**
Here we are, just living in the first draft of creation, which was made
by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it apart.
In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home for school. There,
she meets Annie, whose tremendous power opens Mira's chest like a
portal--to what, she doesn't know. When Mira is older, her beloved
father dies, and she enters the strange and dizzying dimension that true
loss opens up.
Pure Colour tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a
galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked
with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and a
shape-shifting epic. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience,
and she has reimagined what a book can hold.