Enrage the Sky

by Thomas Steele

Hapless Professor Jeffrey Wilson receives a cryptic, mordant letter from a professed killer, both taunting a future crime and conscripting him into a divergent and sordid world.



Detective Sarah Kelley, enervated and vacant, is assigned to investigate the murder of a beautiful college student, ignorant of its scope or implications.



An unnamed, serpentine, and involute killer reflects upon his motivations and madness in series of convoluted missives.



Enrage the Sky pays a tribute to Modern Literature as it poetically examines the fictional murder of a university student in 1993. It explores the depths of this tragedy through multiple perspectives, voices, forms, and recollections. Centering on the complexities of tragedy, loss, depression, entropy, empathy, and love, it unites both embattled protagonists and victimized antagonists within the exploration of the motivations of the absent human soul.

273 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 20, 2022

Reviews

[Jason · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book blew my mind. It’s dark on a Cormac McCarthy level. Dense on a James Joyce level.
Advice for readers: get through the first chapter- it’s intentionally dense, but opens up after that. You will want to refer back to the first chapter throughout the book.
So many stories within stories. The fictional landscape the author creates is beautifully and convincingly nuanced. The characters clear and unique. There are so many moments of tenderness and beauty within a larger, much darker framework.
The book is not for the faint of heart. An advanced degree in comparative lit and literary theory are probably needed to fully get everything that this book entails. Regardless, there is something here for anyone with a modicum of literary acumen.