Jeff Schnader
Jeff Schnader was at Columbia University in 1972 where he participated in sit-ins, marches, and protests against the Vietnam War. He graduated with a BA in physics. He recently retired as full Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins after authoring over fifty scientific publications. Schnader worked full-time in the Department of Veteran’s Affairs for twenty-two years, serving American war veterans, including those of the Vietnam War. His first novel, The Serpent Papers, was a shortlisted finalist in the 2021 Blue Moon Novel Competition.
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The Serpent Papers
- By: Jeff Schnader
- Narrator: Traber Burns
- Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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J-Bee, son of a military officer, is raised in a violent milieu during the 1960s. After his little brother is persecuted by bullies, J-Bee commits a retaliatory act of brutality, the nature of which scars him. When his best friend, Gilly, volunteers to fight in Vietnam, J-Bee–repulsed by his own violence–refuses to follow either his father or Gilly into the military. Instead, he matriculates at Columbia in 1971, an era of counterculture, drugs, sex, and rock ‘n roll, in order to seek his redemption. While there, he is introduced to the mysterious Serpent who recites in the campus cafe, and to the politically active Margo who schools him in antiwar politics and the virtues of peace. Although he feels loyalty to his best friend fighting overseas, J-Bee increasingly sympathizes with Margo’s rationale against the war.
Torn between supporting the war or protesting against it, J-Bee’s paradoxical feelings are ignited when his friend Gilly, on furlough from Vietnam, visits him at Columbia. With ratcheting tensions and bullhorns leading students in protest, pro-war and anti-war factions collide in campus riots, and J-Bee makes the choice that defines his life.
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