Published in the UK for the first time, this is a thoughtful, visceral memoir about the author's lifelong obsession with the colour blue. 'Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today...' Olivia Laing, }Guardian A raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief.