Book description
The thirty-year-old secret about what happened to his older brother haunts Coop Henry, but when cracks begin to form in the family's tight facade, he will be forced to confront the truth.
Our secrets can come to define us, and sometimes after lying asleep for a long spell, a secret…
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Set in two eras, The Smallest Color follows Coop through the summer in the 1960s when his brother disappeared and again when he's in his forties, and the trauma of that summer begins to haunt him all over again.
The two stories weave together seamlessly, capturing the voice of sixteen-year-old Coop as well as the older, more world-weary one without making the two seem like completely different people. The older Coop isn't the nicest guy, and some of his choices are seriously fucked up, but when viewed in the context of what happened years before, they are completely true to…
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