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Sheila Heti

Pure Colour, the latest novel by author Sheila Heti, imagines a world in which God revises humankind into three standard types, drawn from the eggs of bears, birds or fish. Alexandra Kleeman describes it as “part bonkers cosmology and part contemporary parable” in a review for The New York Times. Hear more about the book from Heti herself, in conversation with New Yorker staff writer and novelist Elif Batuman, during a livestream hosted by A Room of One's Own. Tickets include a copy of the book.

media release: Join A Room of One's Own on February 18 for a virtual launch event for Pure Colour—the new novel from Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?—co-hosted by Skylight Books, Green Apple Books, Seminary Co-Op, Elliott Bay Book Company, and A Room of One's Own.

All books bundled with tickets purchased from this page will be supplied by Madison, WI's A Room of One's Own! Your ticket includes admission to this exclusive event, a hardcover copy of Pure Colour ($26 retail price), as well as sales tax, shipping, and handling (if applicable).

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Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience, and she has reimagined what a book can hold.

Sheila Heti is the author of ten books, including the novels Pure Colour, Motherhood, and How Should a Person Be?, which New York magazine deemed one of the “New Classics” of the twenty-first century. She was named one of the “New Vanguard” by the New York Times book critics, who, along with a dozen other magazines and newspapers, chose Motherhood as a top book of 2018. Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages. She lives in Toronto and Kawartha Lakes, Ontario.

Elif Batuman’s first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in the UK. She is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010 and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. Her second novel, Either/Or, will publish in May.