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Book Review of Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

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It is Scottsboro, Alabama, in the fall of 1991. A snake-handling preacher named Glendel Summerford has just tried to murder his wife by snakebite. At gunpoint, he forces her to stick her arm in a box of rattlesnakes. She is bitten and nearly dies.