Hendrik Sadi

Seesaw: Mt. Lake : North Avenue Hendrik Sadi

This is a novel set in the early and late '50s when a young teenage boy around 13 is confronted with the unpleasant memories of his past when his stepfather suddenly arrives and disturbs his peaceful, happy existence on Mt. Lake and in subsequent trips to the mountain reunites and entices him to a wealthier lifestyle than he has been living with his mother and baby sister on Mt. Lake. It all comes full circle when he finds himself living again the simple happy life he had  lived before when his stepfather suddenly leaves them for good. In North Avenue, he is 17 and standing at the entrance to the driveway to his mother's family house in Waincross, New Rochelle, trying to understand why he had quit high school and enlisted in the service as he relives his life from 15 on that has turned him away from his family and life with an indifference he can't understand. But it is in the end a story of teenage angst controlled by the forces of love and hate he balances out on an imaginary seesaw he has built for himself.