JesusDevil : The Parables

Writing in a style she calls 'afiction,' Alexis De Veaux expands and moves beyond traditional narrative, following the adventures of Fhill, a black, queer spirit who has taken human form.

Neither male nor female, Fhill moves fluidly and disruptively across concepts of identity, passing through the nine 'parables' that comprise this text.

Examining aspects of what it means to be black and human - from a nonhuman perspective - Fhill's liminal nature redefines social and literary categories, exploring social constructions of blackness as well as themes of desire, memory, sex, revenge, and more.

A daring new work and crowning achievement from a veteran storyteller.

Cover art by Sokari Ekine, photographer and visual artist. 'oAlexis] said that what she was currently writing was called afiction, something that was coming through her that was not built as a linear story of generated characters, but as a revealed poetics of gathered and ever-changing spirit...

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