Elizabeth Aydelott

Embedded

Fiction

“I admire Marc Knutsen's courage in writing Embedded as his first novel. Not only is he taking on the most dramatic story ever told, that of Jesus' life, but he also is placing it in an anachronistic setting, told from the perspective of a contemporary journalist named Steve. After the reader adjusts to the odd juxtaposition of time periods--Steve has a laptop and cell phone--the narrative is riveting. Steve brings a contemporary curiosity to the ancient story. And it works. Knutsen confronts head-on the current opposition to the Christ-story by taking a contemporary journalist literally back then.”