Revolutions of All Colors (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815611264)

Gabriel Mathis, a twenty-three-year-old aspiring fantasy writer and reluctant Russophile, travels to Ukraine to teach English and meets the love of his life: an international arms dealer very much out of his league. Simon--a former Special Forces medic, torn over a warped sense of duty and a child he did not want--returns to the US to pursue his dream of becoming a mixed martial artist. After spending his adolescence defending his bisexuality, Michael makes his mark in New York's fashion industry while nursing resentment for a community that never accepted him.

Farria traces the lives of brothers Michael and Gabriel and their friend Simon from adolescence to their mid-twenties, through Oklahoma, Afghanistan, New York, Somalia, Ukraine, and New Orleans. Revolutions of All Colors is a brash, funny, and honest look at the evolution of characters we don't often see--black nerds and veterans bucking their community's rigid parameters of permissible expression while reconciling love of their country with the injustice of it.

At its core, this is a novel about the uniquely American dilemma of chiseling out an identity in a country still struggling to define itself.

Author: Dewaine Farria
ISBN-10: 0815611269
ISBN-13: 9780815611264
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/14/2020
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.70w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/09/2020
Shelf Awareness 12/01/2020