Pure Colour

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2023

WINNER OF THE 2022 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD IN FICTION

What if this world is just a first draft, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed? 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.

Pure Color 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.