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Synopsis
A suspenseful first novel about two brothers and the thirty-year secret between them.
Our secrets can come to define us, and sometimes after lying asleep for a long spell, a secret can awake frantic and hungry. Coop Henry's secret needs attention. His missing brother haunts his life and his life isn't holding up well under the strain. When his mother threatens to hire a detective in one last desperate attempt to discover what has happened to his brother thirty years before, Coop's life begins to come unglued. Not even a glimmer of new love in his life can rescue him. It may be that only his missing brother holds the answers —and that possibility is devastating, to Coop and to nearly everyone in his life.
Author Biography: Bill Roorbach, a 2002 NEA Fellow, is the author of Summers With Juliet, Writing Life Stories, and most recently, the novel The Smallest Color. He lives in western Maine.
Melanie Rae Thon
The Smallest Color is a big, rich, generous novel. As I read, I became more and more intrigued, awed, and delighted by the elegance of the structure, the way the stories of the past and present converge, each reflecting and revealing the other.