A transformative, highly engaging, seductive story about life’s insoluble contradictions. Midwestern Angela moves from a small farm to the West Coast, marries a marine biologist, and has three children. When her father dies and the family farm must be sold, she is brought up against the betrayals, small and large, that have formed the course of her life. In order to find “new ground to stand on” she must face letting the past go. Snake stories, symbolic of transformation, form the bedrock of the story as Angela comes to terms with life—her life. Highly recommended, "Snakes" is deeply rooted in Mother Earth—and Soul.