Pure Colour

Pure Colour is a novel about art, love, death, and time from beginning to end. Heti tells the story of a girl named Mira, her relationship with her father and how she deals with his death, and her love for Annie, who she meets while studying to become an art critic.

Pure Colour was generally well received in Canada and the United States. Dwight Garner, journalist for The New York Times writes, "Just like that, there’s magic," and "Heti owns a sharp axe. In Pure Colour the wood chips that fall are as interesting as the sculpture that gets made."^[1] At The New Yorker, American critic Parul Sehgal adds "This book, so full of argument, feels weightless. I note this with wonder. . . Heti's books aim to be vessels for the transformation of reader and writer."^[2] In The Globe and Mail, Nicole Thompson from The Canadian Press calls the novel "a strange and meditative book."^[3]