The Strong Current - by Robert Day (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Boy Emathla knows the rites of initiation into manhood will demand the best of mind, body, and spirit. What he doesnt know is how quickly mounting tensions in the nation will bring about a great conflict, challenging him to his core. The Strong Current, Robert Days debut novel, follows Emathla, a rising youth living in the fictional Creek Indian village of Autauga, located in modern day central Alabama. Trained by the tribes master storyteller for their transitional ceremony, Emathla and his fellow initiates face their final days alone, fasting in preparation for the most important day of their livesa ceremony that marks their initiation into manhood. Relating fictional events through a sharp historical lens, author Day paints a daring portrait of a young Creek Indians ultimate transition from child to leader of his nations warriors. In a setting steeped in culturally relevant detail, The Strong Current chronicles Emathlas physical and spiritual journey, his triumphs and failures, while simultaneously painting a portrait of Creek Indian life and culture during the volatile years directly preceding the War of 1812.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Otci, a rising youth in the village of Attaugee in the great Muskogee nation, knew the rites of initiation to warriorhood and manhood would demand the best of mind, body, and spirit. But what he didn't know was how quickly the tensions mounting in the nation would bring the ultimate conflict, and challenge Otci to his very core. Otci and his brother initiates are trained by a master legend-giver for the ceremony that marks their transition. He is assisted by Pakahle, a beautiful and insightful attendant. With a new name given at the Green Corn Festival from his visions, he inherits a position of power among Attaugee, and soon the nation's warriors.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><em>The Strong Current</em> is a beautifully written, well-researched story of the instruction and passage of Boy Emathla into manhood. The setting, effectively evoked by Robert Day, is a Creek Indian community in central Alabama in the early nineteenth century, but the lessons learned are universal--know yourself, seek that which is true, live with honor and courage. -- <b>Woody Hannum</b>, professor of history, University of South Alabama<br><br><em>The Strong Current</em> is an engaging, fast-paced tale of an Indian youth facing transition to manhood. Robert Day's story of Emathla's struggles as an initiate to become a tustenuggee [warrior] is captivating! Emathla, in learning about himself, finds that the weakness of his body is filled by the strength of his heart, that it is his interior spark and search for a deeper truth that will reveal himself as a warrior--that it will only be accomplished by the honing of his spiritual strength. -- <b>Jim Tiger</b>, attorney, Duncan Tiger & Niegel, PC<br><br><em>The Strong Current</em> is exceedingly well-researched and well-crafted historical fiction with a brilliantly rendered catharsis that unites the world of the senses with the divine. Part bildungsroman, dream vision, and pastoral elegy, <em>The Strong Current</em> is a paean for a world of custom and ceremony and a meditation on the lost American past. -- <b>Tam Carlson</b>, professor of English, University of the South<br><br><em>The Strong Current</em> opens a rare window into the Upper Creek Indians, their customs, and their coming of age. Author Robert Day has obviously read deeply in sources on Creek life, and every page of this historical novel is a new education about an earlier world. Read your Creek and Creek War history, but don't put off adding the spark of life to it with this book. -- <b>David Bagwell</b>, attorney and jackleg South Alabama historian<br><br>Robert Day has given us something rare--a sharply imagined evocation of a long-lost American world, serving as the milieu for timeless, universal themes--the growth to manhood, the shaping of values, and the arc of leadership. It has a touch of <em>The Deerslayer</em> in it, but there is the unmistakable imprint of Marquez-style magic realism here, too. This first volume is just the start of an extraordinary journey into a now strange and shadowy landscape of Native American archetypes, spirits, and intense natural energies. -- <b>Bill Butler</b>, owner, Butler Books, Louisville, Kentucky<br>
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