Pure Color

A student of the Academy of Art Criticism named Mira loves art more than anything else 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 turn 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 moves away from the tools of autofiction and immerses readers in an imaginary, almost fairy-tale reality, where the abstract and metaphysical coexist 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 – flawless – while bird-people, fish-people, and bear-people critique His work and seek impossible closeness with each other?