Devil Is Fine

From acclaimed novelist John Vercher,a profoundly moving novel of what it means to be a fathera sona writerand a biracial American fighting to reconcile the past.Reeling from the sudden death of his teenage sonour narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he has just inherited a plot of land from his estranged grandfather. He travels to a beach town several hours south of his home with the intention of immediately selling the land. But upon inspectionwhat lies beneath the dirt is much more than he can process in the throes of grief. As a biracial Black man struggling with the many facets of his identityhe’s now the owner of a former plantationpassed down by the men on his white mother’s side.Vercher deftly blurs the lines between real and imaginedpast and presenttragedy and humorand fathers and sons in this story of discovery – and a fight for reclamation-of a painful past. With the wit of Paul Beatty’s The Sellout and the nuance of Zadie Smith’s On BeautyDevil Is Fine is a darkly funny and brilliantly-crafted dissection of the legacies we leave behindand those we inherit.