Brandon Hobson is the author of eight books, including the novel Where the Dead Sit Talking, which was a Finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction. He has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Ucross Foundation. He teaches creative writing at New Mexico State University and at the Institute of American Indian Arts and is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation tribe of Oklahoma. His new novel is The Devil Is a Southpaw, which is longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
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The Devil Is a Southpaw: A Novel
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.
