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Devil Is Fine
by John Vercher

    Publication Date: Jun 18, 2024
    List Price: $28.99
    Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    ISBN13: 9781250894489
    Imprint: Celadon Books
    Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
    Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

    Description of Devil Is Fine by John Vercher

    “FULL OF MYSTERY, MAGIC, DARK COMEDY, AND HEART.” —Deesha Philyaw

    “AN INTIMATE NOVEL, BY TURNS BRACING AND HILARIOUS.” —Maurice Carlos Ruffin

    Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he has just inherited a plot of land from his estranged white grandfather. He travels to a beach town several hours south of his home with the intention of selling the land immediately and moving on. But upon inspection, what lies beneath the dirt is far more complicated than he ever imagined. In a shocking irony, he is now the Black owner of a former plantation passed down by the men on his white mother’s side of the family.

    Vercher deftly blurs the lines between real and imagined, past and present, tragedy and humor, and fathers and sons in this story of discovering and reclaiming a painful past. With the wit and rawness of Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, Devil Is Fine is a gripping, surreal, and brilliantly crafted dissection of the legacies we leave behind and those we inherit.