When I had the opportunity to pick up the audiobook, I figured I should pick it up and give it a go. For whatever reason, I could just never get to it. I have had an ARC of this one sitting on my shelf since 2012. A striking and original American novelist.A suspenseful mystery, horror, thriller, dramaīook Club Jaws, finding Dorry, Vincent Van Gogh, conspiracy Coffee and the devil in a bison wig.

And he does so without sucking the joy out of the genre. “LaValle uses the thrills of horror to draw attention to timely matters. A striking and original American novelist.”- The New Republic “Embeds a sophisticated critique of contemporary America’s inhumane treatment of madness in a fast-paced story that is by turns horrifying, suspenseful, and comic.”- The Boston Globe “It’s simply too bighearted, too gentle, too kind, too culturally observant and too idiosyncratic to squash into the small cupboard of any one genre, or even two.”- The New York Times Book Review Fantastical, hellish and hilarious.”- Los Angeles Times “LaValle never writes the same book and his recent is a stunner. a dizzying high-wire act.”- The Washington Post “A fearless exploration of America’s heart of darkness. More than that, it’s a thrillingly suspenseful work of literary horror about friendship, love, and the courage to slay our own demons. The Devil in Silver brilliantly brings together the compelling themes that spark all of Victor LaValle’s radiant fiction: faith, race, class, madness, and our relationship with the unseen and the uncanny. Battling the pill-pushing staff, one another, and their own minds, they try to kill the monster that’s stalking them. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to fight back: Dorry, an octogenarian schizophrenic who’s been on the ward for decades and knows all its secrets Coffee, an African immigrant with severe OCD, who tries desperately to send alarms to the outside world and Loochie, a bipolar teenage girl who acts as the group’s enforcer. It’s no delusion: The other patients confirm that a hungry devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. In the darkness of his room on his first night, he’s visited by a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison who nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. He is accused of a crime he can’t quite square with his memory. He’s not mentally ill, but that doesn’t seem to matter. Pepper is a rambunctious big man, minor-league troublemaker, working-class hero (in his own mind), and, suddenly, the surprised inmate of a budget-strapped mental institution in Queens, New York. New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY

The devil in silver by victor lavalle