THE EDEN HUNTER
by Skip Horack
(Counterpoint, September 2010)
Kau, an African pygmy chief sold into slavery in pre-Civil War America, is determined to be free. He plans, for years, a hazardous escape to Florida, not yet part of the States.
Rejecting those who would befriend him and murdering those who would betray or enslave him, Kau pursues his vision of Eden, a solitary existence in the kind of jungles familiar to him.
A master storyteller, Skip Horack not only tracks Kau’s dangerous path back to freedom, but he charts how this amazing character comes to the realization that he needs to respond to the kindness and love of others.
Skip Horack’s first book, THE SOUTHERN CROSS, a collection of stories, won the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference Bakeless Prize for short fiction and was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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