Pure Colour

WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION • SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A new novel about art, love, death and time from the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be?

“True and newly alive.” —Los Angeles Times

“One-of-a-kind. . . . nothing less than vital.” —The Guardian

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,… Keep Reading