Kid on the Go!: Memoir of My Childhood and Youth

Kid on the Go! is Neill McKees third work of creative nonfiction. Its a standalone prequel to his award-winning Finding Myself in Borneo. In this new book McKee takes readers on a journey through his childhood adolescence and teenage years from the mid-40s to the mid-60s in the small then industrially-polluted town of Elmira Ontario Canada-one of the centers of production for Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. McKees vivid descriptions dialog and self-drawn illustrations are a study of how a young boy learned to play and work fish and hunt avoid dangers cope with death deal with bullies and to build or restore escape vehicles. You may laugh out loud as the author recalls his exploding hormones attraction to girls rebellion against authority and survival of 1960s rock & roll culture-emerging on the other side as a youth leader. After leaving Elmira McKee describes his intensely searching university years trying to decide which career path to follow. Except for a revealing postscript the story ends when he accepts a volunteer teaching position on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia.