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The Devil Is a Southpaw 2025
The Devil Is a Southpaw is a 2025 novel written by Brandon Hobson. This postmodern, postcolonial, magical realism novel follows an unreliable narrator named Milton Muleborn. The story uses a metafiction narrative technique through a fictional character called Brandon H., who found a manuscript titled The Devil Is a Southpaw by Milton Muleborn, whom he knew years ago. Brandon presents this to readers in a foreword.
The novel was shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and listed for the PEN Faulkner Award. Selected portions were published in Mcsweeney's, Conjunctions, and Southwest Review.
Details
- Publisher
- Ecco Press (US)
- ISBN
- 9780063259652
- Format
- Print (hardback & paperback)





