Join us for our Read with us Rocky Mount monthly book club. We'll be reading The Devil is a Southpaw by Brandon Hobson throughout November. The Devil is a Southpaw is a haunting, unforgettable novel of obsession, pride, and forgiveness, exploring the friendship and rivalry between two gifted boys in harrowing circumstances. Books available for purchase through Habibti Bookshop.
Milton Muleborn has envied Matthew Echota, a talented Cherokee artist, ever since they were locked up together in a dangerous juvenile detention center in the late 1980s. Until Matthew escaped, that is.
A novel within a novel, we read here Milton’s dark, sometimes comic, and possibly unreliable account of the story of their childhood even as, years later, he remains jealous of Matthew’s extraordinary abilities and unlikely success. Milton reveals secrets about their friendship, their families, and their nightmarish, surreal, experience of imprisonment. In revisiting the past, he explores the echoing traumas of incarceration and pride.
Date: Thursday, November 20th
Time: 6pm
Location: Rocky Mount Train Station (101 Coastline St) on the second floor.
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