New novel · 2025
The Devil Is a Southpaw
2025 novel by Brandon Hobson
Summary
The Devil Is a Southpaw is a 2025 novel by Brandon Hobson. It is a postmodern, postcolonial, magical realism novel told by its main protagonist, an unreliable narrator named Milton Muleborn. The novel employs a metafiction narrative by introducing a fictional character named Brandon H. who has received a manuscript titled The Devil is a Southpaw by Milton Muleborn, whom he knew many years earlier, and presents to the reader in a foreword. The Devil Is a Southpaw was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and longlisted for the PEN Faulkner Award. Excerpts appeared in Mcsweeney's, Conjunctions, and Southwest Review.
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