"It could be that there are at least two, and possibly more groups of substantially large numbers of people who think so differently from one another, that they find it impossible to understand one another, even when they try."
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The Last Cavebear III at War by Shannon Van Slyke Lulu
book review by Jenifer Kimble
This book chronicles a group of co-workers as they go about their duties within the legal, patent, and engineering departments of an international tire company. The group shares completely different character profiles and a myriad of work ethics. The story is told through the eyes of Richard Wainwright, who despite being intuitive to the motivations of the people surrounding him, consistently chooses the high road in his dealings with them. The story outlines a classic example of corporate America, where social groups evolve within, and people take selfish measures to propel themselves ahead of those they consider threatening.
This is the third novel in a series. The book uses the inner workings of Dynasty Tire Corporation as a societal example. This broken group has turmoil at its core as personalities and agendas clash requiring no additional introduced chaos for the self-destruction occurring within. The novel does a good job of introducing detail about the company and the characters, making the reader feel that they are walking the halls in what could be a real scenario. Character and industry descriptions allow us to further self-identify, even renaming characters in their head to those encountered at some point in their own life or career. The author deserves credit for her clever use of the terrorist events of 2001 to produce further social divide amongst her cast of characters as she does for the parallels drawn throughout the text with other easily relatable and identifiable classic literature.