Color of Us

"e;A heart-wrenching ten-star family saga and love story... a story you live rather than one you just read."e; — Author, editor & publisher · Reedsy Reviewer ★★★★★"e;Clear your calendar. Tell your book club. Pull up your socks!"e; — MavenofMoo · Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★"e;Beautiful, touching, evocative... will touch you in unexpected ways."e; — Author, editor & publisher · Reedsy Reviewer ★★★★★Some love stories start with a letter. Some start with fish tacos and tequila. This one starts with both.When Addie Calloway returns to Chicago after losing her mother, she brings thirty boxes of memories, a grief she refuses to sit with, and a best friend named Baxter Link who has been quietly in love with her for a decade. Sorting through her mother's things, Addie discovers something she never knew existed — hundreds of letters written by the father she lost before she could know him. Letters her mother never spoke about. Letters that reveal the love story that shaped the family she's been trying to understand her whole life.Told across two timelines — Addie and Baxter's slow-burning present-day Chicago, and the sweeping 1960s love story of her parents, Emma and Jake, set against the tobacco farms of rural North Carolina and the skies of Vietnam — The Color of Us is a novel about grief, inheritance, and the quiet courage it takes to choose your own future. As Addie traces the love that came before her, she begins to see her own life more clearly — and to learn, at last, how to love in full color."e;This will stay with you long after reading. So much joy from sorrow. Tears, laughter & LOVE the ending!"e; — k. mys · Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★"e;I feel I will come back to this story again and again. And each time, I will finish the story with a new revelation about myself."e; — D. · Goodreads ★★★★★Perfect for readers of Before We Were Yours and Malibu Rising — a story about the family history we carry without knowing it, the love that finds us when we finally stop running, and the letters that outlast everything.