Seldom Seen - Mitch James

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Résumé :
A dead mother. An auctioned childhood home. Loss in the womb of a coal mine. Seldom Seen follows Brander, an Illinois native who moves to Alaska after high school to trap game and escape the hardships of his family. Brander returns to Illinois two years later to find that his mother has died of cancer and the property where he grew up is soon to be auctioned off by his eldest brother. While failing to reconcile this sudden shift, Brander encounters Richter, a specter of a man who promises him that the answers to life are in Seldom Seen Mine, the largest coal mine in the United States. With nothing holding him back, Brander moves to Pennsylvania, takes a job at Seldom Seen Mine, and fails at every attempt to amend his life, losing a friend, a lover, and maybe his mind....

Biographie:
Mitch James is a Professor of Composition and Literature at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, Ohio and the Managing Editor at Great Lakes Review. You can find his latest short and flash fiction in Made of Rust and Glass: Midwest Literary Fiction Vol. 1, Flyover Country, and Flash Fiction Magazine, poetry at Peauxdunque Review and Southern Florida Poetry Journal, and scholarship at Journal of Creative Writing Studies. Find more of his work at mitchjamesauthor.com, and follow him on Twitter @mrjames5527. Seldom Seen is his first novel.