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Indlæser... Snakeskin Road: A Novelaf James Braziel
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In this powerful and moving new novel by James Braziel, author of Birmingham, 35 Miles, a woman begins a harrowing journey of survival along a passage of terror--and hope.... They call it Snakeskin Road. An ever-changing network of highways, rivers, and forgotten trails, it's used by profiteers of a grim new traffic in human cargo. The catastrophic climatic changes that transformed the Southeast into a vast, inhospitable desert have left its desperate inhabitants with no choice but indentured servitude. Jennifer Harrison is among those destined for the farms, mines, casinos, and brothels of the midwestern "Free Zones." Carrying the unborn child of her deceased husband, Mathew, Jennifer hopes that in three years' time she'll be free to reach Chicago--and a world better than the one she is leaving. Along with a thirteen-year-old refugee entrusted to her care, Jennifer begins a hazardous pilgrimage across a countryside of barricaded city-states, lawless camp towns, marauding gangs, and what's left of a corrupt government. But nothing she faces is more dangerous than a man named Rosser--a ruthlessly opportunistic bounty hunter determined to bring her back to Birmingham. In a world where hope is always a mile ahead, Jennifer has one last chance before the road disappears forever. No library descriptions found. |
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This was a critical book written in post-Apocalyptic America about illegal immigrants in a fragmented America. The story was interesting, compelling, brutal and profound. The main character Jennifer, who is pregnant, lacks the capacity to solicit empathy from the reader as after nine years she travels back to join her mother in Chicago. Her husband was supposed to follow her but she knew he never would so she was on her own.
Later Jennifer finds herself more of a guardian to Mazel who was abandoned by her mother after the bus they were traveling in goes through a sudden sandstorm and flips over. Some passengers died and others struggled to stay alive in a barren environment. After some time they were picked up by a patrol and taken to a fortressed city where she finds a ride to take her north to her mother‘s but becomes captive and prisoner in a brothel where she miscarriages and Mazel attempts suicide.
Than the story moves on to a ruthless bounty hunter Rosser, pursues them for leaving the city. The story did hold my interest but it was a brutal adventure that I hope the world never comes too…. ( )