Is the Green You See, the Green I See?
As my brain absorbed these other names, the colors seemed to shift. The names themselves were changing how I saw the colors.
Harmless Like You
A Dictionary of Color Combinations,
TheBritish Colour Council Dictionary of Colour Standards
British Colour Council Dictionary of Colours For Interior Decoration
Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours
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Author of the novel Harmless Like You. Winner of the Authors' Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award. Her second novel, Starling Days is out in April 2020. Short work has appeared in Granta, Guernica, The Atlantic, The Harvard Review, and NPR's Selected Shorts.
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