The Last Blue The Last Blue

The Last Blue

A Novel

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Publisher Description

In this luminous narrative inspired by the fascinating real case of “the Blue People of Kentucky,” Isla Morley probes questions of identity, love, and family in her breathtaking new novel.

In 1937, there are recesses in Appalachia no outsiders have ever explored. Two government-sponsored documentarians from Cincinnati, Ohio—a writer and photographer—are dispatched to penetrate this wilderness and record what they find for President Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration. For photographer Clay Havens, the assignment is his last chance to reboot his flagging career. So when he and his journalist partner are warned away from the remote Spooklight Holler outside of town, they set off eagerly in search of a headline story. What they see will haunt Clay into his old age: Jubilee Buford, a woman whose skin is a shocking and unmistakable shade of blue. From this happenstance meeting between a woman isolated from society and persecuted her whole life, and a man accustomed to keeping himself at lens distance from others, comes a mesmerizing story in which the dark shades of betrayal, prejudice, fear, and guilt, are refracted along with the incandescent hues of passion and courage. Panning across the rich rural aesthetic of eastern Kentucky, The Last Blue is a captivating love story and an intimate portrait of what it is like to be truly one of a kind.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2020
May 5
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
Pegasus Books
SELLER
Simon & Schuster Digital Sales LLC
SIZE
4.4
MB

Customer Reviews

Mary Kay Ogden ,

The Last Blue

The Last Blue is beautifully crafted. It is a page turner. Isla Morley does a beautiful job of dealing with stereotyping, prejudice, and trust. I highly recommend it.

I completely agree with the comments made by Mary Kay Ogden. This was a wonderful book club discussion selection especially at this time.

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