01999cam a2200337 i 4500 1440582074 TxAuBib 20240814120000.0 231020s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023049327 9781250894489 HRD 28.99 1250894484 HRD 28.99 TxAuBib rda Vercher, John, author. Devil is Fine [Book] : a novel / John Vercher. First edition. New York : Celadon Books, 2024. 262 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Our narrator is haunted. Haunted by panic attacks, a failed relationship, alcoholism, an academic career that wants to define him by his Blackness, and the trauma of the recent death of his 17-year-old son, Malcolm. When a letter arrives informing him that his maternal grandfather has left Malcolm a plot of land, our narrator leaves his life behind and heads to the seaside of the Northeast, where his identity is shaken by the dark and haunting secret that lies beneath this inherited land. With the wit ofPaul Beatty's The Sellout and the nuance of Zadie Smith's On Beauty, author John Vercher's Devil is Fine is an emotional account of what it is to be a father, a son, a writer, and a biracial American fighting to reconcile freedom and creativity with thefootprint of colonialism. Gripping, surrealist, and darkly funny, Devil is Fine is a brilliantly-crafted dissection of the legacies we leave behind, and those we inherit"-- Provided by publisher. 20240814. African Americans Fiction. Fathers and sons Fiction. Sons Death Fiction. Grief Fiction. Identity (Psychology) Fiction. Inheritance and succession Fiction. Novels. lcgft