Sheila Heti ’s new novel, “Pure Colour,” is about a young woman who turns into a leaf. “Unrequited love’s a bore,” Billie Holiday sang. So, it turns out, is photosynthesis.

While Pure Structural Colour is not yet commercially available, the Lifescaped lab is working with various companies to manufacture paints for sale, and hopes to have some available “within the ...

Pure Colour consists, basically, of two loosely twined narrative strands: Mira and creation. In Heti's idiosyncratic mythology, God is an artist, and our present world is merely a "first draft." ...

PURE COLOUR By Sheila Heti 216 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $26. A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 27, 2022, Page 9 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Book of Genesis.

Color is a thing you have to see to know what it’s like, and so is Pure Colour. To describe the plot is to run the danger of making it sound random, which it is and isn’t.

Pure Colour tells the story of a life, from beginning to end. It is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty.

BOOK REVIEW The creation and the critique in ‘Pure Colour’ By Anthony Domestico Globe Correspondent,Updated February 10, 2022, 5:07 p.m.

While Pure Structural Colour is not yet commercially available, the Lifescaped lab is working with various companies to manufacture paints for sale, and hopes to have some available “within the ...