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The Devil Is a Southpaw: A Novel Audiobook, by Brandon Hobson Play Audiobook Sample

The Devil Is a Southpaw: A Novel Audiobook

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Read By: Shane Ghostkeeper Publisher: HarperAudio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2025 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780063259676

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

45

Longest Chapter Length:

67:54 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

03 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

12:46 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

4

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Publisher Description

A haunting, unforgettable novel of obsession, pride, and forgiveness, exploring the friendship and rivalry between two gifted boys in harrowing circumstances, from the acclaimed writer of The Removed

Milton Muleborn has envied Matthew Echota, a talented Cherokee artist, ever since they were locked up together in a dangerous juvenile detention center in the late 1980s. Until Matthew escaped, that is.

A novel within a novel, we read here Milton’s dark, sometimes comic, and possibly unreliable account of the story of their childhood even as, years later, he remains jealous of Matthew’s extraordinary abilities and unlikely success. Milton reveals secrets about their friendship, their families, and their nightmarish, surreal, experience of imprisonment. In revisiting the past, he explores the echoing traumas of incarceration and pride.

Filled with Brandon Hobson’s swirling yet visceral writing, and punctuated with original artwork, The Devil Is a Southpaw is an ambitious, elegant, and propulsive novel in the spirit of Vladimir Nabokov and Gabriel García Márquez. 

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About Brandon Hobson

Brandon Hobson is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation tribe. He is the author of several novels, including Where the Dead Sit Talking, a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction and winner of the Reading the West Book Award. His work has appeared in the Pushcart Prize anthology, The Believer, the Paris Review DailyConjunctionsNOON, and McSweeney’s, among other places. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at New Mexico State University and teaches in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

About Shane Ghostkeeper

Marin Ireland is a voice artist who has won five Earphones Awards as well as the prestigious Audie Award for Best Female Narration in 2020. She is an award-winning actress known for her starring role in the Broadway show Reasons to Be Pretty, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. She has appeared in a number of off-Broadway shows and television series, including Homeland, Unforgettable, The Killing, The Following, and others.