Gabriel Mathis, a 23-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. Dewaine Farria traces the lives of brothers Michael and Gabriel and their friend Simon from adolescence to their mid-20s, 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.