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Book review: Black trauma drives fantastic multi-generational tale The Devil Three Times
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The Devil Three Times is the debut novel of Rickey Fayne.
PHOTOS: LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY , SHALICIA JOHNSON
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By Rickey Fayne
Fiction/Little, Brown And Company/Paperback/400 pages/$49.52
As a debut novel – or even if it were not – this is a magnificent achievement, a poetic, multi-generational montage steeped in the over-churched milieu of the black American South.

