John Vercher Devil Is Fine

About the author:

John Vercher lives in the Philadelphia region with his wife and two sons. Vercher is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at Drexel University and was the inaugural Wilma Dykeman writer-in-residence at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. His debut novel, Three-Fifths, was named one of the best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune and Booklist. His second novel, After the Lights Go Out, called “shrewd and explosive” by the New York Times, was named a Best Book of Summer 2022 by Book Riot and Publishers Weekly, and named a Booklist Editor’s Choice Best Book of 2022.

About the book:

Devil Is Fine is a profoundly moving novel about a struggling biracial writer forced to confront a dark family history while simultaneously reeling from the sudden death of his son. Brilliantly crafted, this novel blurs the lines between real and imagined, past and present, and tragedy and humor, dissecting the legacies we leave behind, and those we inherit.

Photo by Rafael Aguilera.

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