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Devyn Defoe’s Haunting Sacramento Novel | Sacramento News
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Sacramento’s own Devyn Defoe drops her haunting debut novel Burnside, a gritty magical realism tale that mirrors the city’s smoky, shadowed summers through the eyes of a homeless man who vanishes after injuring a girl—named September for a pinup calendar. Blending Didion’s precision with Vollmann’s sprawl, Defoe channels her dad’s killer tales and local coffee shop lore into a story that feels eerily real. With a Stanford fellowship, a Best American Experimental Writing nod, and part-time bookseller hustle, she’s already rewriting Sacramento’s literary map—one smoke-filled page at a time.
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