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Snakes of St. Augustine Paperback – September 12, 2023

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"... Take the leap: fall in love with Jazz, with Serena, with Fletch, with Rocky – maybe even with a ball python or a dusky pygmy rattler.” ~ Laura McBride, author of We Are Called to Rise and In the Midnight Room

The theft of Trina Leigh Dean’s beloved snakes – including a rare Eastern indigo named Unicorn, Banana Splits the yellow ball python, and Bandit the banded king snake – coincides with the disappearance of a troubled young man named Gethin Jacobs. While his sister Serena searches for him, she gains an unlikely accomplice – Jazz, a homeless community college student. Meanwhile, Trina’s friend Fletch, a burnt-out cop, scours St. Augustine, Florida, for the stolen snakes. His quest puts Fletch on a dangerous collision course with Gethin, raising questions about community, family, and the power of compassion.

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"Snakes of St. Augustine is a relentlessly beautiful and compelling story. Ginger Pinholster sees into the hearts, minds, and souls of her vast and varied cast of characters with grace, insight, and humor. This novel will linger with readers long after the final page is read."—Connie May Fowler, author of A Million Fragile Bones

About the Author

Ginger Pinholster likes to say that turtles find her. A volunteer member of Florida’s Volusia Turtle Patrol, she earned her M.F.A. degree from Queens University of Charlotte and a B.A. from Eckerd College. Her first novel, City in a Forest, won a Gold Royal Palm Literary Award from the Florida Writers Association in 2020. A resident of Ponce Inlet, she serves as vice president for communications at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Regal House Publishing (September 12, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1646033825
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1646033829
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #2,447,855 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #565 in Disability Fiction
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- #95,862 in Literary Fiction (Books)

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Turtles find me.

During sea turtle season, I cruise Ponce Inlet beach with Florida’s Volusia-Flagler Turtle Patrol.

I'm also a writer for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach.

My second novel, SNAKES OF ST. AUGUSTINE will be released by Regal House Publishing in September 2023. Read early reviews online at https://www.gingerpinholster.com/.

My debut novel, CITY IN A FOREST, was published in September 2019. It received a gold award in the Florida Writers Association's 2020 Royal Palm Literary Awards competition.

I earned my M.F.A. degree from Queens University of Charlotte and my B.A. in English from Eckerd College.

My short stories and essays have been published by Atticus Review, The Northern Virginia Review, Eckerd Review, Blackheart Magazine, Crab Fat Magazine, Gravel Magazine, and Dying Dahlia Review, and in the book Boomtown. Long ago and far away, I was a journalist.

I’ve completed two novels: CITY IN A FOREST and SNAKES OF ST. AUGUSTINE, and a third, ANGEL-DOG FINDS ME, is in the works. Read more about my novels online at https://www.gingerpinholster.com/novels.

Through the simple act of reading, you make the world a better place. Thank you.

HOW TO FIND ME:

Email me at pinholsterginger@gmail.com

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Facebook: @GingerPinholster

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Ashley Andrews

A must-read Florida novel

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2024

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Serena, a personal fitness trainer, has cared for her younger brother Gethin most of their lives and has even taken in his girlfriend Rocky. Gethin has undiagnosed behavioral patterns that make it difficult for him to interact socially and goes missing at the beginning of the novel. The disappearance seems to be related to a number of missing (and very valuable) snakes from a local serpentarium. The novel follows Serena as she searches for her brother and befriends a homeless college student named Jazz, who has many similar tendencies as Gethin. Serena later learns that he (Jazz) also has feelings for her. The book deals intensely with both neurodiversity and responses to trauma with multiple characters working through issues individually and together. There are families, biological and "found," throughout the book who provide physical and emotional homes to one another. What I loved most were the very detailed depictions of both St. Augustine and Daytona Beach - both communities were very accurately described.

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M. Cavaliere

Empathy as a superpower

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2024

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"I'm not a fan of snakes either, but we can't go around hating every single thing that scares us."

Pinholster's prose are as punchy as they are delicate, painting a picture of a world where characters feel every emotion, no matter how mysterious, deeply, and where seemingly ordinary acts of kindness and compassion are wielded like superpowers.

Her story is a call for empathy in all forms -- but most especially, as the title suggests, for our cities' unseen and misunderstood, those "invisible" creatures who have lived among us, ignored, feared or pushed to the margins, since the beginning of time.

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myty nsb

Gritty characters ennobled by lyrical writing and fathomless humanity

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2023

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This is a spell-binding read that will draw you in – and might even change the way you look at the people you pass on the street without making eye contact. First, the writing is first-rate, lyrical at times without ever floating over the head of its readers. That grounding, I think, comes from characters made gritty by how they are ground down by unrelentingly difficult lives. They are the sort of people I suspect many avid book readers would cross the street to avoid. But between the pages of this book, they are ennobled with a fathomless humanity that will make you wish you knew them, will make you root for them, will make you care – even as you brace for a heartache that seems almost inevitable given the obstacles aligned against them. Take the journey with them, and you will not soon forget it.

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Sue Finger

Wonderful writing

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2023

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This was a great book - I love the author's creative metaphors. She creates complex characters and treats them with compassion. I'm looking forward to reading more from her.

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Marveymezzo

A remarkable read!

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2023

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The author has managed to get inside the heads of characters often found on the fringes of the community and show us their love and humanity. Reading this book could help you be a more compassionate human, too.

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B. A. Overby

A Sensitive Portrayal of Neurodiversity

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2024

In Snakes of St. Augustine, Ginger Pinholster weaves a strange tale that addresses economic struggle, neurodiversity, homelessness, and the intersection of humanity and the natural world. Beginning with a theft at a serpenterium outside of town, Pinholster takes the reader first on a search for the stolen snakes, then on a parallel search for the novel's neurodiverse central character, Gethin Jacobs. Hopping points of view between Gethin, his older sister Serena, and a small cast of characters around them, Snakes of St. Augustine portrays a collective struggle for connection and personal safety in a period of extreme stress, as the characters search not only for one another, but also for the promise of a simpler and more fulfilling life. In the process, Pinholster approaches the neurodiversity of Gethin and his homeless friend Jazz with both tenderness and unvarnished clarity, bringing to mind William Faulkner's portrayal of Benjy Compson in The Sound and the Fury.

Snakes of St. Augustine is an ambitious work that lags briefly at times, but recovers quickly to deliver a gripping exploration of corners of our humanity we don't observe as keenly or as often as we should.

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L Rago

Read it!

Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2023

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The character development in this book is outstanding. I loved every single person, faults and all. I wish I could walk the streets of St Augustine and meet them and have a chat!

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