The Evolution of Charlie K (Book) - 12/15/2021 1:04:48 PM
This is not my review because I wrote the book but this 5* review was just posted on Amazon:
This is a very good and intriguing book. It follows the life of a young Papua New Guinea boy, Charlie K, from the days when PNG was still administered by Australia until independence. The cultures of the indigenous tribes and the mores of the ruling Australian police administraors are superbly captured, sometimes humorosly, sometimes sadly by someone who has clearly lived there.
Serendipity means that Charlie K receives an American education during which he continually compares and contrasts his student life in the USA with life back home. While proving a more than able student, he observes the American way of life from the viewpoint of a foreign black man.
The reader follows Charlie K's adventures from an uncertain boy and confused young man until he finally settles into confident fatherhood, at ease in his own skin.
Charlie K turns out to be an attractive, likeable person. Just like this book, in fact.
