[eBook Announcement] Paternal Rites by Ken Walters
About hunting, Adam Fischer's father tells him, 'Small game, you kill. You have to learn that first to understand that side of it. But big game, you don't really kill. You give a part of yourself to it during the hunt and when you shoot it, that part is frozen and it�ll stay forever.'Adam Fischer is the main character in Ken Walters' novel Paternal Rites, now available online at www.barnesandnoble.com, amazon.com, and www.publishamerica.com. While not all hunters might think of their art as this statement says it, Mr. Walters thinks the philosophy sums up much of what people do. Writing represents the freezing of thoughts and emotions, raising a child becomes the freezing of values, even working on a car maintains the freezing of skill.
In the short novel, Adam Fischer is a quiet and bright sixteen-year-old in Detroit where his mom fixes his collar and step-dad hugs him in public. Life would be happy and routine if not for two week-long visitations with his natural dad in North Carolina. Adam feels he cannot satisfy the outdoorsman and blames him for abandoning a family. Matt Fischer needs the acceptance of his son, but also wants the boy to understand his set of values. Paternal Rites is a harrowing tale that ponders whether acceptance can ever be too late.
Currently, Mr. Walters works with disadvantaged youths at East Junior High School in Mankato, MN, and lives in Janesville, MN, with his wife Joyce and daughter Christine. Paternal Rites is his first published novel. He received his BA in journalism from Memphis University in 1978 and his MFA in fiction from the University of Alabama in 1988. He taught English for many years at Midlands Technical College in Columbia, South Carolina and moved to Minnesota in 2002.
Parental Rites by Ken Walters
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