Hagridden by Samuel Snoek-Brown Spotlight!

                           

Book Description: 

As the Civil War winds violently down, fears of the South’s uncertain future fuse with its unraveling traditions. Against the backdrop of this post-apocalyptic landscape, so littered with corpses and mythology and desperation, two women, stranded and alone in the Louisiana bayou, fight to survive.

Author Bio:

Samuel Snoek-Brown is the author of Hagridden, a Civil War novel from Columbus Press, and Box Cutters, a fiction chapbook from sunnyoutside press.

His short fiction has been published inAmpersand Review, Bartleby Snopes, Eunoia Review, Fiction Circus, Fried Chicken and Coffee, Prick of the Spindle, Red Fez,WhiskeyPaper, and others. He also works for Jersey Devil Press. 

He was shortlisted as a finalist in the 2010 and 2011 Faulkner-Wisdom competitions; his novella also was a semi-finalist in the 2010 Faulkner-Wisdom competition. He was a finalist for the 2013 storySouth Million Writers Award.He is the recipient of a 2013 Oregon Literary Fellowship. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and their two cats, Ibsen and Brontë.

Excerpt!

"I’ve seen what we truly are in this war. You haven’t. You think you know what’s happening from what stragglers and deserters come through here, what news you read what’s written by folks ain’t even in this war. Some fancy writer out on a hill scribbling away, some special drawing a pretty picture. They haven’t stabbed a man through the heart. They haven’t shot a man knowing they’re about to be shot themselves. I’ve seen death in front and behind me, I’ve seen death inside me. I and I alone know what living is, and what it’s worth."