Pure Color

A student at the Academy of Art Criticism named Mira loves art more than anything in the world, works part-time in a decorative lamp store, and moves from one damp apartment to another. A sudden encounter with the mysterious, detached Annie and the death of her caring father turns her life upside down, forcing her to see herself, her relationships with people, and the world around her from a completely new perspective. In her new novel, Sheila Heti departs from the tools of autofiction and immerses readers in an imagined, almost fairytale reality where the abstract and metaphysical exist alongside the tangible and earthly.

What if the world is merely a rough draft destined to disappear so that God, having learned from mistakes, creates a second version - without flaws - while people-birds, people-fish, and people-bears criticize His work and seek impossible closeness with one another?