Jamie Quatro is a writer of sinuous, muscular power and grace.Two-Step Devilis a starkly gorgeous story of God and loss and art and love, and her best book yet. Lauren Groff

From aNew York TimesNotable writer of great originality comes a bold new novel about love, faith and two societal outsiders whose lives converge in the contemporary American South

The fearless (New Yorker) author ofI Want to Show You MoreandFire Sermonwhose recently published stories inThe New YorkerandThe Paris Reviewhave brought her new attentionis known for her sharp, seductive prose and masterful exploration of the divine and the carnal in daily life. InTwo-Step Devil, Quatro delivers a striking and formally inventive story of the unlikely relationship between two strangers on the margins of society and the shadowy forces that threaten their futures.

In 2014, in Lookout Mountain, Alabama, the Propheta seventy-year-old man who paints his visionslives off the grid in a cabin near the Georgia border. While scrounging for materials at the local scrapyard, the Prophet sees a car pull up to an abandoned gas station. In the back seat is a teenage girl with zip ties on her wrists, a girl he realizes he must rescue from her current life. Her name is Michael, and the Prophet feels certain that she is a messenger sent by God to take his end-time warnings to the White House. Michael finds herself in the Prophets remote, art-filled cabin, and as their uncertain dynamic evolves into tender friendship, she is offered a surprising opportunity to escape her pastand perhaps change her future.

Moving through the worlds of the Prophet, the girl, and a beguiling devil figure who dances in the corner of their lives,Two-Step Devilis a propulsive, philosophical examination of fate and faith that dares to ask what salvation, if any, can be found in our modern world.