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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. 30,000 first printing.
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"I've admired Bill Roorbach's voice for a long time. He is a writer who is full of compassion and warmth for his subjects. We're lucky to have new work from him. "-Rick Moody. . What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againThe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learnTime is the fire in which we burn. -Delmore SchwartzCoop Henry's terrible secret about his older brother is eating up his life. In this extraordinary first novel about two brothers-one alive, one presumed missing-the thirty-year secret that has kept Coop bound in silence suddenly threatens to leak. What really happened to Hodge Henry? His younger brother, Coop, certainly knows-yet he has managed to keep up a decades-long charade that has fooled everyone. When Coop's marriage falters, when his job as Olympic ski coach is threatened, when his canny mother threatens to hire the best detective in the country in one last, vain attempt to retrieve a missing son, Coop cracks. But lovely Veronica has suddenly come along-she's young enough to give Coop pause, compelling enough in mind and body to convince him to act, even if it means losing his job, his home, and his secret. The Smallest Color is the story of Coop's attempt to remember the past, that devastating summer of 1969 when everything seemed possible, when his brother was still alive. Like Sue Miller in When I Was Gone, or Philip Roth in American Pastoral, Bill Roorbach re-imagines the sixties, when radical acts threatened to destroy a domestic bliss we may have had no claim to. Alternating between then and now, the two brilliant cables of the novel interweave the past and present into a portrait of time itself in this unforgettable story of brotherly love, loss, and deliverance.
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