Last Blue: A Novel

Based on a true story, "The Last Blue" is a luminous narrative that explores identity, love, and family. Two documentarians are sent to penetrate a wilderness in 1937 to record what they find for President Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration. They meet Jubilee Buford, a woman with a shocking shade of blue skin, and a captivating story unfolds.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 28 October 2021
Publisher: Pegasus Books

Inspired by the captivating real-life case of "the Blue People of Kentucky," this luminous narrative delves into profound questions of identity, love, and family.

"The Last Blue" has been acclaimed as a "Best Book of the Month" by The Southern Review of Books.

In 1937, a remote region in Appalachia remains unexplored by outsiders. Two government-sponsored documentarians, a writer and photographer, are dispatched to document the area for President Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration. Photographer Clay Havens sees this assignment as his last chance to revive his struggling career. Despite warnings to stay away from the secluded Spooklight Holler, they embark on a quest to uncover a headline-worthy story.

What they encounter will haunt Clay for the rest of his life: Jubilee Buford, a woman with a shocking and unmistakable blue skin. This chance meeting between a woman isolated from society and persecuted her entire life and a man accustomed to keeping a distance creates a mesmerizing narrative that explores the dark shades of betrayal, prejudice, fear, and guilt alongside the incandescent hues of passion and courage.

Spanning the rich rural aesthetic of eastern Kentucky, "The Last Blue" unfolds as a captivating love story and an intimate portrayal of what it means to be truly one of a kind.

Weight: 320g
Dimension: 140 x 209 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781643137735