Jun
25
11:00pm
Loyalty Bookstores Presents Rickey Fayne for The Devil Three Times
By Loyalty Bookstores
We're celebrating this spring's Leap of Faith debut novel The Devil Three Times by Rickey Fayne. This intergenerational novel of brilliant family interactions with the devil from a slave ship through generations of American life. "A major new talent announces himself... This book is daring, and it challenged me at every turn." Filled with daring, determination, and the quiet, familial moments that make life, this novel will captivate you from jump and remind you what it means to fight.
Join Loyalty owner Hannah Oliver Depp as they lead a conversation with Rickey Fayne about the creation of this novel, the history it references, and the gorgeous sentences that went into making this novel.
If you loved Sinners, Toni Morrison, Zora Neal Hurston, Walter Mosely, or the Black Imagination this book is for you!
Leap of Faith Subscribers are automatically registered for this virtual event so check your inboxes for your Crowdcast confirmation! All folks interested in this fantastic debut by registering on via the link on the right.
You can snag the Leap of Faith Box, just the book, or a subscription to Leap of Faith from Loyalty below. Please email [email protected] with any questions.
Please note Loyalty has a zero tolerance policy for harassment or intimidation of any kind during this event.
ABOUT THE BOOK
“A debut of enormous ambition” spanning eight generations of a Black family in West Tennessee as they are repeatedly visited by the Devil (Nathan Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Sweetness of Water)
Yetunde awakens aboard a slave ship en route to the United States with the spirit of her dead sister as her only companion. Desperate to survive the hell that awaits her at their destination, Yetunde finds help in an unexpected form—the Devil himself. The Devil, seeking a way to reenter the pearly gates of heaven, decides to prove himself to an indifferent God by protecting Yetunde and granting her a piece of his supernatural power. In return, Yetunde makes an incredible sacrifice.
Their bargain extends far beyond Yetunde's mortal lifespan. Over the next 175 years, the Devil visits Yetunde's descendants in their darkest hour of need: Lucille, a conjure woman; Asa, who passes for white; Louis and Virgil, who risk becoming a twentieth-century Cain and Abel; Cassandra, who speaks to the dead; James, who struggles to make sense of the past while fighting to keep his family together; and many others. The Devil offers each of them his own version of salvation, all the while wondering: can he save himself, too?
Steeped in the spiritual traditions and oral history of the Black diaspora, The Devil Three Times is a baptism by fire and water, heralding a new voice in American fiction.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rickey Fayne is a fiction writer from rural West Tennessee whose work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Guernica, The Sewanee Review, and The Kenyon Review, among other magazines. He holds an MA in English from Northwestern University and an MFA in Fiction from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. His writing embodies his Black, Southern upbringing in order to reimagine and honor his ancestors’ experiences.
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