Book jacket image for Devil Is Fine by John Vercher

Celadon

9781250894489

STARRED REVIEW

Devil Is Fine

Wrestling with grief over the loss of his son and with the inheritance of a former plantation, the narrator of John Vercher’s Devil Is Fine embarks on a mystical, profound journey into an unraveling identity.

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Review of ‘Devil Is Fine’

Children who have lost their parents are orphans, wives who have lost their husbands are widows, and husbands who have lost their wives are widowers. But there is no word to account for the immense, devastating loss of a child. John Vercher begins Devil Is Fine from this nameless position, as the unnamed narrator, a…

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