"This is a beautiful, beautiful book."

        - Benjamin Alire Saenz (author of In Perfect Light and Carry Me Like Water)


Serpent Box is an amazing first novel, one that brings to mind Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood and Harry Crews' The Gospel Singer. Carrella's prose has the clarity and richness of poetry, and he crafts his story with the sure-handedness of a veteran novelist."

         Ron Rash (author of Saint at the River and One Foot in Eden)

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  • The White Bird

    I want to tell you about something that happened this Sunday past. I had myself a day of strange encounters with animals. I want to tell you about one of them. I was on a deserted beach at Point Reyes. I hiked in two miles from the road and had just emerged from the dunes. I stood before the ro...

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