The Devil Is a Southpaw
The Devil Is a Southpaw
Brandon Hobson
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Product Info
ISBN: 9780063259652
Publisher: Ecco Press
Publication Date: 10/28/25
Binding: Hardcover
Age Range: -
Grade Range: NA-NA
Series: ,
Pages:
Language: English
BISAC: Fiction, Psychological, Indigenous, General (see also Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island or Nat, and Literary
Related Subjects: Psychic trauma, Envy, Male friendship, Psychological fiction, Indian prisoners, Gifted boys, and Indigenous youth
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Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
A haunting, unforgettable novel of obsession, pride, and forgiveness, exploring the friendship and rivalry between two gifted boys in harrowing circumstances, from the acclaimed writer of The Removed
Milton Muleborn has envied Matthew Echota, a talented Cherokee artist, ever since they were locked up together in a dangerous juvenile detention center in the late 1980s. Until Matthew escaped, that is.
A novel within a novel, we read here Milton's dark, sometimes comic, and possibly unreliable account of the story of their childhood even as, years later, he remains jealous of Matthew's extraordinary abilities and unlikely success. Milton reveals secrets about their friendship, their families, and their nightmarish, surreal, experience of imprisonment. In revisiting the past, he explores the echoing traumas of incarceration and pride.
Filled with Brandon Hobson's swirling yet visceral writing, and punctuated with original artwork, The Devil Is a Southpaw is an ambitious, elegant, and propulsive novel in the spirit of Vladimir Nabokov and Gabriel García Márquez.