A Wounded Snake

Joseph Anthony’s fine historical novel A Wounded Snake presents a compassionate, yet unsentimental, study of race, politics, law, and lawlessness in the near-South, turn of the 20th Century city of Lexington, Kentucky. Local information about events and personalities is set up as precisely as lead type placed, letter by letter, onto a printing press, to reveal line by line, in stark black and white, how a century ago a good truth….did more than a fist in the face could ever do. In today’s atmosphere of renewed racial tension, A Wounded Snake serves to remind the reader that we cannot be in this place we ve been. For although forgetting is what we do best in the South, it’s time to remember and change. –Christina Lovin, author of A Stirring in the Dark and Echo: Poems