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02183aam a2200385 i 4500 001 8B75ED64383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240702013519 008 231020s2024 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023049327 020 $a 1250894484 020 $a 9781250894489 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d IMmBT $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3622.E7336 $b D48 2024 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20231023 100 1 $a Vercher, John, $e author. 245 10 $a Devil is fine / $c John Vercher. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Celadon Books, $c 2024. 300 $a 262 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a African Americans $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Fathers and sons $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sons $x Death $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Grief $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Identity (Psychology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Inheritance and succession $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 941 $a 5 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20240703011646.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20240702043015.0 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20240702042534.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240702032715.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702025916.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8B75ED64383D11EFA74ADF9234ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search