Overview:
First-year university can be a whirlwind experience that many do not survive. Reid McFetridge faced many hurdles during his freshman year, but he never realized that studying philosophy as his elective would have quite the impact it had in his life. Nor would meeting his housemate Taylor or his fellow philosophy student Michelle, who would both share in his trials and tribulations during the hectic times he faced at Queen’s University in Canada during the mid-eighties – a time and place unique is its laissez-faire attitudes in the unruly milieu of the student ghetto. This novella is a special experience to all who read it.
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Written in the tradition of a coming-to-age novel, this novella describes the events of a young man’s life during his first-year at university. Reid’s best friend and housemate suffers a heart attack while running with him that proves to be a catalyst for him to depart from the suffocating pressures and expectations of his father to adopt, test and prove the philosophy that he is learning in his favourite philosophy class. He is also affected by the friends he meets at school, including Taylor his housemate who convinces him to join the rowing team. He also meets Michelle, who shares his unlikely passion for philosophy and who also faces her own challenges. Obstacles and challenges do not deter Reid in pushing forth and discovering his true self in the high-pressure environment of a freshman at university…
115 pages (52730 words)
Author’s note: This coming-to-age novella is about of a student at university in the 1980s finding his way…