Reprieve dungeon crawler carl Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring

Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning

and when you need to collect other notes or scraps of paper the magnetic side flap keeps everything neat and tidy

But when the most powerful devil in the underworld finally makes his appeareance

"One of my favorite authors

Reprieve dungeon crawler carl Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring"Like Whitehead's The Intuitionist, Alyssa Cole's When No One Is Watching or Zakiya Dalila Harris' The Other Black Girl, Reprieve straddles genres in the best possible way. . . . Sure to spark conversation and debate at book clubs across the land." LOS ANGELES TIMES "An eventual American classic that is unrelenting in its beauty and incisive cultural critique." KIESE LAYMON Recommended by New York Times Los Angeles Times NPR Today Esquire O Quarterly