The Devil Takes You Home: A Novel
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Buried in debt due to his young daughter’s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel’s cash shipment before it reaches Mexico. Along with an old friend and a cartel-insider named Juanca, Mario sets off on the near-suicidal mission, which will leave him with either a cool $200,000 or a bullet in the skull. But the path to reward or ruin is never as straight as it seems. As the three complicated men travel through the endless landscape of Texas, across the border and back, their hidden motivations are laid bare alongside nightmarish encounters that defy explanation. One thing is certain: even if Mario makes it out alive, he won’t return the same.
The Devil Takes You Home is a panoramic odyssey for fans of S.A. Cosby’s southern noir, Blacktop Wasteland, by way of the boundary-defying storytelling of Stephen Graham Jones and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR, Harper's Bazaar, Chicago Tribune, Vulture, Oprah Daily, CrimeReads, The Millions, and many more!
An Edgar Award Finalist • A Bram Stoker Award Winner • A Shirley Jackson Award Winner • A Book of the Month Club Pick • An August Indie Next List Selection • An ABA Indie Bestseller
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There are books that are comfort reads. This is certainly not one of them. If you enjoy getting punched in the stomach repeatedly by the very worst the world can muster, this one is for you. We follow a protagonist who has lost everything and pursues a task in the hope of regaining even a fraction of that loss. Blood, gore, loss, racism, betrayal, organised crime, the occult, drug abuse, poverty—he witnesses it all, described in excellently immersive writing and prose. Gabino Iglesias does not pull any punches, detailing all the horrific acts in detail, so fair warning to anyone sensitive to violence of any kind. One thing that hampered my enjoyment is that about 20% of the book involves conversations in Spanish, with no footnotes, translations, or sometimes even context clues to rely on. While I appreciate the authenticity, I dislike not understanding conversations or having to look up a significant chunk of a book on Google Translate.
Description
Buried in debt due to his young daughter’s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel’s cash shipment before it reaches Mexico. Along with an old friend and a cartel-insider named Juanca, Mario sets off on the near-suicidal mission, which will leave him with either a cool $200,000 or a bullet in the skull. But the path to reward or ruin is never as straight as it seems. As the three complicated men travel through the endless landscape of Texas, across the border and back, their hidden motivations are laid bare alongside nightmarish encounters that defy explanation. One thing is certain: even if Mario makes it out alive, he won’t return the same.
The Devil Takes You Home is a panoramic odyssey for fans of S.A. Cosby’s southern noir, Blacktop Wasteland, by way of the boundary-defying storytelling of Stephen Graham Jones and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR, Harper's Bazaar, Chicago Tribune, Vulture, Oprah Daily, CrimeReads, The Millions, and many more!
An Edgar Award Finalist • A Bram Stoker Award Winner • A Shirley Jackson Award Winner • A Book of the Month Club Pick • An August Indie Next List Selection • An ABA Indie Bestseller
Book Information
Posts
There are books that are comfort reads. This is certainly not one of them. If you enjoy getting punched in the stomach repeatedly by the very worst the world can muster, this one is for you. We follow a protagonist who has lost everything and pursues a task in the hope of regaining even a fraction of that loss. Blood, gore, loss, racism, betrayal, organised crime, the occult, drug abuse, poverty—he witnesses it all, described in excellently immersive writing and prose. Gabino Iglesias does not pull any punches, detailing all the horrific acts in detail, so fair warning to anyone sensitive to violence of any kind. One thing that hampered my enjoyment is that about 20% of the book involves conversations in Spanish, with no footnotes, translations, or sometimes even context clues to rely on. While I appreciate the authenticity, I dislike not understanding conversations or having to look up a significant chunk of a book on Google Translate.