Two-Step Devil

WINNER OF THE WILLIE MORRIS AWARD FOR SOUTHERN WRITING - FICTION 'Jamie Quatro is a writer of sinuous, muscular power and grace. Two-Step Devil is a starkly gorgeous story of God and loss and art and love, and her best book yet.' --Lauren Groff From a New York Times Notable 'writer of great originality' comes a bold new novel about love, faith and two societal outsiders whose lives converge in the contemporary American South The 'fearless' (New Yorker) author of I Want to Show You More and Fire Sermon--whose recently published stories in The New Yorker and The Paris Review have brought her new attention--is known for her sharp, seductive prose and masterful exploration of the divine and the carnal in daily life. In Two-Step Devil, Quatro delivers a striking and formally inventive story of the unlikely relationship between two strangers on the margins of society and the shadowy forces that threaten their futures. In 2014, in Lookout Mountain, Alabama, the Prophet--a seventy-year-old