Pure Colour

„Pure Colour“ by Sheila Heti is described as a contemporary bible, in which the earth as it is now is god’s first draft of creation. The book that evolves around the story of Mira dealing with her father’s death contains parts about love, grief, and art, the overlapping of souls, and the creation of the world. Although I was really excited to read about those topics, I have to say that I was somewhat disappointed.

The narrative is quite experimental, which I was first excited about, but unfortunately for me, the realistic and surreal parts didn’t really work together.
The storyline felt like it was being made up while the book was written, the characters lacked depth and I couldn’t really get into the story. Heti’s way of overusing metaphors was also making it hard to get to the real content of the plot.
The chapters were really short and had a lot of changing subjects, thus the entirety of the reading experience felt like I was reading a synopsis and still waiting for the real novel to start.

I feel like if someone is looking for a rather easy read, a kind of self-help book, „pure colour“ could be a good fit, also as so many people highly recommend it, but it just wasn’t really my thing unfortunately.