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Praise for Two-Step Devil, one of LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024:
"In 2014, a visionary 70-year-old man develops a bond with a captive teenage girl that could change both their destinies…By alternating between perspectives and pushing the novel’s formal boundaries, Quatro daringly explores the evils and mercies, large and small, that steer the courses of human lives. A searing and innovative allegory for our turbulent times.” –Kirkus Reviews
"Quatro reckons with faith and the nature of evil in her daring and disturbing latest...It's hard to turn away from Quatro's electrifying vision."--Publishers Weekly
“Jamie Quatro is a writer of sinuous, muscular power and grace. Two-Step Devil is a starkly gorgeous story of God and loss and art and love, and her best book yet." -- Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds
"In this spellbinding story of good and evil, revelation and madness, Jamie Quatro ponders all the ways in which innocence and vulnerability can be exploited in a culture that deliberately turns from human suffering. Beautiful and brave and brilliant, shot through with mystery and love, Two-Step Devil is a novel that only Jamie Quatro could have written -- and only, I suspect, with an angel peering over her shoulder." -- Margaret Renkl, author of The Comfort of Crows
"Reading this novel is like holding on to a live wire. Jamie Quatro is the real thing. The music of these sentences lights my hair on fire." -- Garth Greenwell, author of Small Rain
"Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil compelled me with almost supernatural force. I could not turn away. It's a book that wrestles with the biggest questions about sin and salvation, violation and agency--striding fearlessly into narrative and political terrain almost always treated with knee-jerk, agenda-driven simplicity--but the pulse at the core of this breathtaking novel is unequivocally human, tender and alive--formally daring and utterly riveting." -- Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters
"The bold, ingenious, impassioned Two-Step Devil takes risks--tonally, formally and theologically--that would terrify a less masterly writer than Jamie Quatro. Her unforgettable characters, her meticulous observation of backwoods folklife and her wide-ranging intellect come together to create a novel that's a wild and rich entertainment, a profound interrogation of God's ways to Man, and--perhaps most daring of all--a story of simple human compassion." -- David Gates, author of A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me
"Jamie Quatro is one of the finest, and most fearless, American writers currently working. Her new novel, Two-Step Devil, is, among other things, an intense exploration of the Christian faith, a deeply empathetic portrait of a weirdo, and a peerlessly innovative modern-day theodicy. I've never read anything like it. I suspect no one has." -- Tom Bissell, author of Creative Types
"The characters in Jamie Quatro's Two-Step Devil will surely join the pantheon of Hazel Motes, Temple Drake, and Howard Finster. They are their own peculiar theological texts, defying doctrinal consistency--and thank God for that." -- Charles Marsh, author of Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Glorious, rich, mad, wonderful, daring and epic in its scope, Two-Step Devil is simply thrilling to read." -- Samantha Harvey, author of Orbital