Published by Knopf Canada, the book won the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language fiction.

Pure Colour is a novel about art, love, death, and time from beginning to end.

Heti tells the story of a girl named Mira, her relationship with her father and how she deals with his death, and her love for Annie, who she meets while studying to become an art critic.

Dwight Garner, journalist for The New York Times writes, “Just like that, there’s magic", and "Heti owns a sharp axe.

In Pure Colour the wood chips that fall are as interesting as the sculpture that gets made.”[7] At The New Yorker, American journalist and author Douglas Preston adds "This book, so full of argument, feels weightless.