Coop Henry's terrible secret about his older missing brother is eating up his life. In Bill Roorbach's extraordinary first novel about two brothers, the thirty-year secret that has kept Coop bound in silence is threatening to burst. A beautiful portrait of the Sixties and of brotherly love, loss and deliverance.
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 he isn't holding up well under the strain. When his mother threatens to hire a detective in one last desperate attempt to discover what happened to his brother thirty years earlier, 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.
'The Smallest Color' is the extraordinary story of one man's mid-life attempt to remember the past, the dark and exotic summer of 1969 - a summer of love and rage, when everything seemed possible and the road held every charm. The unforgettable past and the demanding present ford two brilliant threads in the novel, interwoven into a portrait of time itself and of brotherly love, loss and deliverance. ummer of love and rage, when everything seemed possible and the road held every charm. The unforgettable past and the demanding present ford two brilliant threads in the novel, interwoven into a portrait of time itself and of brotherly love, loss and deliverance.
