Location from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The poorest quarter of the poorest district — a neighborhood of coal-dusted shacks where hunger is the baseline and the only way out is the mines or the arena.
The Seam is where Katniss Everdeen learned that the world wants you dead and you have to fight it every single day. After her father died in a mine explosion, her mother collapsed into catatonic depression and Katniss — eleven years old — became the sole provider for her family. She learned to hunt in the forbidden woods, trade at the Hob, and read which Peacekeepers would look the other way. The Seam produces people who are either broken or unbreakable. The coal dust gets into everything — skin, lungs, identity. Seam kids are identifiable by their dark hair and olive complexion, distinct from the merchant class. It is a place engineered for despair that accidentally forged a revolution.
Cramped wooden houses with sagging roofs, packed dirt roads, coal dust on every surface. Thin children with olive skin and dark hair — the Seam look. Laundry lines strung between houses. The smell of coal and boiling grain. The mines loom at the edge of the neighborhood.
Also known as: the Seam