Victor LaValle
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY,The New York Times Book Review â€¢ The Washington Post â€¢ Publishers Weekly,New Hyde Hospitalâ€™s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, ,very, old one., Â , 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. Heâ€™s not mentally ill, but that doesnâ€™t seem to matter. He is accused of a crime he canâ€™t quite square with his memory. In the darkness of his room on his first night, heâ€™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. Itâ€™s no delusion: The other patients confirm that a hungry devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to fight back: Dorry, an octogenarian schizophrenic whoâ€™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 groupâ€™s enforcer. Battling the pill-pushing staff, one another, and their own minds, they try to kill the monster thatâ€™s stalking them. But can the Devil die?, Â ,The Devil in Silver, brilliantly brings together the compelling themes that spark all of Victor LaValleâ€™s radiant fiction: faith, race, class, madness, and our relationship with the unseen and the uncanny. More than that, itâ€™s a thrillingly suspenseful work of literary horror about friendship, love, and the courage to slay our own demons.
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The Devil in Silver