The Shape of Snakes
It took a few hours on a rainy winter night for a black woman known as "Mad Annie" to die in a gutter. It will take twenty years for the woman who found her to shape her neighbors' racism, the indifference of the police, and her own rage into the truth. "Harrowing...These complex characters can...
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It took a few hours on a rainy winter night for a black woman known as "Mad Annie" to die in a gutter. It will take twenty years for the woman who found her to shape her neighbors' racism, the indifference of the police, and her own rage into the truth. "Harrowing...These complex characters can be cunning, deceitful, even mad-which is exactly what makes them such absorbing company." (New York Times Book Review) "Builds tension masterfully." (The Wall Street Journal)
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780515133066 (051513306X)
Publish date: June 4th 2002
Publisher: Jove
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
fraudio, mystery-thriller, britain-england, plague-disease, aga-saga, psychology, revenge Read in April, 2009 Unabridged and read by Francis Barber.Tourette's Syndrome/Racism/Animal cruelty/domestic violence/child abuse/prostitution/alcoholism/rape/disloyalty.An uncomfortable and well executed ta...
This was a very dark story, and with information doled out in fragmented bits and pieces it was hard to get a sense of what was really going on. However, the story came together in the end and the revelation on the last page really threw the whole book in a new light. Very interesting.
Unabridged and read by Francis Barber.Tourette's Syndrome/Racism/Animal cruelty/domestic violence/child abuse/prostitution/alcoholism/rape/disloyalty.An uncomfortable and well executed tale; good stuff.
racism and murder, tourette's
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