Name: Rickey Fayne, author of THE DEVIL THREE TIMES- an in-person Boswell event
Start: 2025-05-16T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-16T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Boswell Book Company

Rickey Fayne, author of THE DEVIL THREE TIMES- an in-person Boswell event
About this Event

Boswell presents an evening with Rickey Fayne, who appears with his powerful debut novel, The Devil Three Times, which spans eight generations of a Black family as they are repeatedly visited by the Devil. Fayne is currently the Mendota Fellow in Fiction at UW-Madison.

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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. 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 and offers each of them his own version of salvation, all the while wondering: can he save himself, too?

“A major new talent announces himself with The Devil Three Times. Rickey Fayne has written a structurally inventive novel that challenges nearly everything we've been taught about God and the Devil and the usefulness of Jesus’s love for Black folks. This book is daring, and it challenged me at every turn. I was also deeply moved by its soulful belief in a universe in which we are all connected across generations.” —Attica Locke, New York Times bestselling author of Guide Me Home and Bluebird, Bluebird

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.