It encompasses the beginning and end of the world, and Adam and Eve, as well as her character Mira’s entire life, all within a slim 200 and some pages it’s the kind of book that you start reading again as soon as you finish it, to see how on earth the author pulled it off. Pure Colour exemplifies both that originality and sharpness. It is easy to imagine her, simultaneously, as the precociously artsy girl she once was and the pin‑sharp older woman she will one day be. Her short, pixie-like fringe, which she had when she wrote her previous bestselling novels, 2010’s How Should a Person Be? and 2018’s Motherhood, has gone (“I just grew out of it”), and she has a quietness and perceptiveness that is often overlooked by critics, who mistake her originality for kookiness. But she seems older than I expected, too. A mutual friend had told me beforehand that the 45-year-old Heti “will seem young to you”, and, with her girlish voice and 1990s teenager outfit of a long-sleeved T-shirt beneath a cotton blue dress, she does at first. Outside, a blizzard blows, but Feldman keeps us both warm by snoozing on our feet. Heti and I are sitting in her cosy second-floor apartment in Toronto, which she shares with her boyfriend of 11 years, Luc, and their friendly rottweiler, Feldman. As a result of the shock, she adds, the story in her book “suddenly breaks”. But while your mind knows it, maybe your body doesn’t,” she says. Mother and father are connected to what life is, and you know all along they aren’t the sky, the earth – they’re people. It has been the most profound change I’ve experienced in adulthood, having a parent die.
“He had been sick, but it was always going to be a shock. OL16176307W Page_number_confidence 94.72 Pages 324 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220324130027 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 300 Scandate 20220319061300 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781846557682 Tts_version 4.S heila Heti hadn’t intended to write a book about grief, but in late 2018, about a year after she’d started writing her new novel, Pure Colour, her father died. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 00:52:26 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA40407817 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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