Download or read book Serpent's Gift written by Helen Elaine Lee and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of two African-American families who unite after a breadwinner dies. A son becomes a writer of folk stories and oral history, and it is he who provides the novel with its social and historical content.