Sweet Potato
A forthcoming novel
Lorenza has always known two things: she was adopted, and she loves snakes.
The first fact haunts her. The second one saves her.
Sweet Potato is a coming-of-age novel about a young woman growing up in a small town in Virginia, searching for her birth mother, and finding — through the unlikely world of herpetology — that the power she’d been looking for was never somewhere else to begin with. Part identity story, part nature writing, it weaves together the ancient mythology of snakes, the cutting-edge science of venom research, and the emotional complexity of what it means to belong.
Lorenza is a rare kind of protagonist: curious, stubborn, and drawn to creatures most people cross the street to avoid. Her story is for readers who know what it is to feel like they landed in the wrong life — and who suspect that the right one might be stranger and wilder than they imagined.
A young woman’s obsessive search for her birth mother leads her to an unexpected source of power: herself.”
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