The Shape of Snakes

Haunted by the violent death of a black woman with Tourette's syndrome 20 years earlier, an English schoolteacher recreates the harrowing even twith the help of newspaper clippings, police reports and personal letters, and forces her racist neighbors to confront their role in the murder. In 2001, Marilyn Stasio praised the novelist's "commanding control over her inflammatory material - and her readers."-----$7.99-----Reviewed by: MJS-----call #: Adult M