The Seam edition by John Kitterman Literature Fiction eBooks
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A college coed has been found in the Appalachian Mountains with her throat cut and a message carved into her stomach. Sylvie Presley was investigating a powerful energy company blowing off the tops of mountains, but the police think she was killed by local meth dealers. Now her cousin Anna Jassey must prove what really happened and get to the killers before they get to her.
But Anna is mentally ill and an addict and no one believes her. Until she meets Elias Kraft, a professor mourning his wife killed in the Virginia Tech massacre. Threatened, shot at, and locked up, the girl from Grundy and the grieving man forge an unusual relationship as they confront their own personal demons and the destruction of the American wilderness, dark seams that lie beneath the American Dream.
The Seam edition by John Kitterman Literature Fiction eBooks
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's a captivating story well told about the relentless efforts of a woman up against a powerful and corrupt industry. I'm reminded of this famous quote. "Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret MeadI'm looking forward to Kitterman's next book.
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The Seam edition by John Kitterman Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
“The Seam” by John Kitterman is a sumptuous literary offering. The author makes artful use of metaphoric language while also demonstrating a natural gift for storytelling, as he weaves together complex issues of intrigue and danger. The physical landscape is rural and mountainous Virginia as it is being ripped asunder by a fictional coal mining company.
There are two central characters who meet by chance to form an unlikely bond. Anna Jassey is a young woman member of a group that opposes the mining company. She has a host of her own problems, too, including a troubled childhood, a bi-polar disorder, drug dependency and the firm belief that her cousin was murdered as part of a pervasive conspiracy by the mining company in an effort to continue buying off politicians and law enforcement agencies. She is also convinced that the information her murdered cousin passed on to her is reason enough to fear for her own life.
The man who befriends her, Elias Kraft, is a Virginia Tech English professor whose wife was gunned down in the infamous mass killing at the university in 2007. He is going through life in a middle-age fog and thereby welcomes the diversity in thinking that his friendship with Anna provides.
However, the more Elias becomes involved with Anna, the more he realizes the tragic events taking place, since meeting her, could amount to more than Anna’s paranoid mind. His military training comes into play increasingly as time unfolds. Most notably, he concludes that if nothing else, perhaps, he can protect Anna from herself until they can gather enough facts to prove a conspiracy does actually exist. The twist and turns the two of them face says a lot about their growing relationship, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and how they react to a world wrought with threat.
Although the author never lacks for full descriptive passages, of the mental and physical landscapes within the story‘s realm, his words never impede the flow of the action. That, I’d say, is a rare gift, and I look forward to Kitterman’s next literary offering.
John Kitterman's The Seam is a fun read, cliff-hanging, sexy, hard to put down. Throughout, but most graphically at the end, a postmodern Virgil (male) and Dante (female) in the Appalachian coalfields struggle from circle to circle with a monster in pursuit. In the balance hangs the question of whether or not they will prevail, and ultimately whether or not it matters. Kitterman is an excellent story teller, poet, philosopher, and seamster in combining these talents into the The Seam.
The author has an obvious command of English. The book is genre fiction, yes. It's a mystery novel, but one written very eloquently. Readers won't find any point A to B dry narrative here. The Stream of Consciousness passages are especially rich. They're a pleasure to read from a purely stylistic point of view.
Thematically the book has a lot of social commentary. It glances on the Virginia Tech massacre, but more pointedly it focuses on the plight of coal miners in Southwest Virginia and West Virginia juxtaposed against a changing world of corporate profits. The book also examines themes such as drug addiction and environmental sustainability.
Mixing in a hunted murder witness and some Native American magical realism tops off a wonderful read.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's a captivating story well told about the relentless efforts of a woman up against a powerful and corrupt industry. I'm reminded of this famous quote. "Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret Mead
I'm looking forward to Kitterman's next book.
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