VINCENT LOUIS CARRELLA
Wednesday, March 5 at 7:30 p.m.

For his day job, Vincent Louis Carrella has been a designer of interactive digital media (meaning, we think, he has helped create games, including 'Bad Mojo'). Whether or not he keeps at that, he is likely to be spending more time writing books, based on the reception his fine debut novel, Serpent Box (HarperPerennial), has been receiving. This is Appalachia, this is faith healing, this is serpents. "Serpent Box is an amazing first novel, one that brings to mind Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood and Harry Crews's The Gospel Singer. Carrella's prose has the clarity and richness of poetry, and he crafts his story with the surehandedness of a veteran novelist." - Ron Rash. "In this beautifully written debut novel, Carrella sweeps readers into the vividly rendered world of a family of Pentecostal preachers ... Carrella is a writer of great power who expresses his original vision with remarkable assurance." - Booklist.

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