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In Color for Canvas by J. M. Huxley, Jane Campbell grows up in Cape May, New Jersey, in a household that defines her future while overlooking who she already is. On her twelfth birthday, she begins experiencing vivid encounters with a man called Mac who brings her to a stretch of Kansas prairie that feels tangible and continuous. Over time, Jane discovers that this land is not a single moment but a place layered with human lives across generations. She witnesses the daily labor, dangers, losses, and quiet persistence of women tied to the same ground, even though they never see her. Jane paints what she is shown, and the paintings begin to circulate beyond her control, connecting her present life to an unfolding past. As the visions deepen, Jane must decide whether these experiences exist only to be observed or whether they require her participation.
Color for Canvas by J. M. Huxley is a gorgeous, sweeping supernatural time travel novel with a truly spiritual passage, which operates through bodily relocation and sensory displacement, and follows American history through Jane’s experiences across eras. Jane herself is a wonderful lead, and her persistence in observing what she is shown, and continuing to paint even when understanding lags behind experience, shows a perseverance of womanhood that we need to see more of in fiction. This is especially prevalent when she chooses to keep recording places that disturb her sense of safety. Huxley extends this treatment even to ancillary characters, like nineteenth-century homesteader Agnes O’Donnell, who is unwavering in protecting her home while armed men threaten it. The settings are spectacularly cinematic: A sod house fortified against wolves, and the prairie during wartime when fire changes the land. This is a brilliantly written and deeply immersive novel. Very highly recommended.
