In the House of the Serpent Handler: A Story of Faith and Fleeting Fame in the Age of Social Media MG_Gift_Guide With his signature “seasoned finesse”

With his signature “seasoned finesse” (Booklist)

Despite this challenging persona

but a series of complex formulas

he must defy the most sacred traditions and reject all he has been taught

In the House of the Serpent Handler: A Story of Faith and Fleeting Fame in the Age of Social Media MG_Gift_Guide With his signature “seasoned finesse”In the House of the Serpent Handler offers an intimate and engrossing look at the latest generation of Pentecostal believers who take up venomous snakes as a test of their religious faith. Focusing on several preachers and their families in six Appalachian states, journalist Julia C. Duin explores the impact that such twenty first century phenomena as social media and reality television have had on rituals long practiced in obscurity. As Duin reveals,