PositiveCleveland Review of BooksPerhaps unsurprisingly, Pure Colour feels much more concerned with raising these questions than with answering them, as Heti’s work is known for its deep philosophical bent. Pure Colour sets up an existential conversation ... This subversion of the typical response to a dying world is due, in no small part, to both Heti’s skill as a writer, and to the fundamental ideas of Judaism with which Heti seems to infuse her writing ... just as the reader becomes comfortable in the framework of the story—following Mira through life, ruminating on art and endings from the perspective of a participant in the world—Heti disrupts it ... ultimately, the feeling one leaves Pure Colour with is not a feeling of dread for the end to come, but of a gentle, almost melancholic optimism for what might come after the end ... from the perspective of an outside reader, the guidance Pure Colour has given to me is this: continue the cycles, and take comfort in them.
