From acclaimed novelist John Vercher, a profoundly moving novel of what it means to be a father, a son, a writer, and a biracial American fighting to reconcile the past

“As arresting as it is propulsive, Devil is Fine plunges readers into every parents’ worst nightmare, and asks, What do we owe to those we’ve failed? Vercher’s rapid-fire insights on fatherhood, loss, and redemption are necessary reading. The novel’s final pages will leave you breathless.”

―Jonathan Escoffery, author of the Booker Prize finalist If I Survive You

“In John Vercher’s profoundly moving Devil Is Fine, an unforeseen and unwanted inheritance of a long-forgotten plantation haunts a mixed-race man with the ghosts of his past and his present while they play hide-and-seek with his sanity. Vercher plays the conceit to perfection in this taut, surreal novel as the legacies of colonialism, racism, and family trauma conspire to push a good man to the very reach of his limits.”

―Ben Fountain, author of National Book Award finalist Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk