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Name: So much blue
Author: Percival L. Everett

Kevin Pace’s newest painting remains hidden, a signature of his lifelong secrecy. Ten years earlier he had an affair with a young watercolorist in Paris, and in the late 1970s he journeyed to El Salvador in search of a missing friend’s brother, a minor drug dealer caught in a country on the brink of war. As past shadows flicker back into his present, Kevin wrestles with the sacrifices he has endured for his craft and the hidden truths he has kept from his wife and children.

First publish date: 2017

Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction

Authors: Percival L. Everett

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