Selective Service: A Novel - McKittrick, Dan

Selective Service: A Novel by McKittrick, Dan

Format: Trade Paperback

Published by Independently published, 2021

South Dakota author Dan McKitrick's novel Selective Service is the story of Alex O'Brien, a 19-year-old college dropout in 1970. Losing his student deferment and wanting to avoid the draft during the Vietnam War, Alex decides to move to Canada. He has a change of heart and, instead, winds up on an Indian reservation in South Dakota. He teaches school and coaches while he discovers friendship, love, and an alternative way to be of service. His time there coincides with the American Indian Movement and their occupation of Wounded Knee. It is an inspiring story of a quest for meaning and purpose in chaotic and challenging times and is instructional for today's world.

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