Kickapoo

ISBN: 0595203132

Author: Sadi, Hendrik E.

Condition: New

Product Description When a group of young teenagers come to build a meetinghouse for a local American Indian tribe in Oklahoma on a summer in the 1950's more than work waits for them, when the forces of love, jealousy, hatred and revenge are unleashed. And the comical, but diabolical machination of evil, in the form of a diminutive old man, leads to the climactic death of one of the main characters. From the Author This novel is based like most of my work on personal experience. In the late 1950s when I was sixteen I went with many other teenagers from all over the USA to a place in Oklahoma to help build a meeting house for the Kickapoo Indians.This was a summer work project sponsored by the Quakers and at that time my mother had become a Quaker. I was apprehensive at first that I would be working with very religious people. But I soon found out that the teenagers I met were full of mischief and excitement as I was and that love ( puppy love you might call it) soon found it's way to a number of our hearts. I had my first experience  at young love that summer with a girl from North Carolina.What came out of the pages of the novel though was much more than a teenage summer of work and play and I realized later on when I had finished it that William Faulkner and Carl Gustave Jung, the psychologist, had influenced the writing and the story quite a bit. From the Back Cover This is a story about a group of teenagers trying to redeem an inherited guilt in Oklahoma during the 1950s, and the consequences of that redemption when evil, in the form of an old man, comes into play. About the Author My name is Hendrik Sadi. I grew up in southern Norway in the 1940s and lived in Cairo, Egypt, Istanbul, Turkey and Beirut, Lebanon in that order between the ages of 10 to 13. I served in the US Coast Guard for 4 years when I was seventeen and attended Columbia University where I also worked as a research technician in the late 1960s. I have always loved reading fiction throughout my life and have been influenced a lot in my writing by William Faulkner and Knut Hamsun, though I did not start seriously writing until I was in my late thirties when I wrote my first novel, Kickapoo.I invite you to visit me at my website ernholder.com. Thank you.