Best-selling author Linda Lee Greene’s latest novel CRADLE OF
THE SERPENT (goo.gl/i3UkAV) is a
story whose protagonist is a contemporary North American archaeologist named
Lily Light. Her work centers on the “Great Serpent Mound” in Adams County,
Ohio, USA. The book is written in the
voices of Lily Light and her psychotherapist Michael Neeson. Lily’s therapy is
based on her estrangement from her husband Jacob, also an archaeologist at work
on a project in Arizona. Early in Lily’s therapy, Jacob is injured in a violent
shooting at the edge of the Navajo Reservation there, and is left permanently
paralyzed from his shoulders down. Lily also learns that a woman murdered at
the scene of the crime was Jacob’s mistress.
During several of Lily’s therapy sessions, she experiences
dream-states or time-travels in which she takes on the bearing of a young Indian
female, a member of the indigenous clan of
the mound’s original architects. Through her remarkable journey through time, Lily
finds her way to the other side of her shattered life wrought by Jacob’s
infidelity and its numerous catastrophic consequences.
