<p><b>** SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2023**<br>** WINNER OF THE 2022 GOVERNOR GENERAL''S LITERARY AWARD IN FICTION**</b><br><br><b>Named a Best Book of the Year by <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>Vulture</i>, <i>The Times Literary Supplement</i>, and more<br><br><i>What if this world is just a first draft, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed?</i></b><br><br>In this first draft, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. 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 that strange and dizzying dimension that true loss opens up.<br><br><i>Pure Colour </i>tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling and a shape-shifting epic that is celestially bright and streaked with beauty.<br><br><b>''Beautiful and impossible to put down. Sheila Heti is a genius.'' Avni Doshi</b><b