noel goodwin hubbard

Meet Jubilee Summers, a thirteen year old boy child prodigy. In Dew Valley, Alabama, the precocious thirteen year old musician fills the pews to overflowing in his father’s Pentecostal Church. Through a child’s vision and at a tender age, Jubilee begins to questions his father’s church, his own faith, and his identity. This journey of discovery takes the reader into a passionate deeply felt story of a guilt-ridden young man’s journey in the religious Deep South.

Through the Pentecostal Holiness church of hellfire, brimstone, and a myriad of scandal, Jubilee’s narration takes you into a powerful chronicle of mesmerizing and magnificent tales of cruelty and violence in the name of religion. At the onset of his teenage years, he wages a private war against physical and sexual abuse by a family member. When he can no longer endure the molestations, he and his young black friend Mud Dauber take dire steps to ensure the abuse never recurs. In a convincing portrayal of unimaginable truths, Jubilee draws his readers inside and tells of his encounters with the devil and his relentless adversaries.

A SEED FROM THE SERPENT explores a life of racism, deception and greed. It is ultimately a novel of an invincible spirit and the power of survival of a troubled and impoverished lad of the nineteen thirties and forties seeking acceptance. The story of Jubilee will live in your memory as we in the 21st Century continue his journey in our own minds.