Pedai: "Bonds" "Fetters"

by Kirk Shellko

Pedai is a meditation on the dynamic of friendship and its influence on how humans relate to one another. Seeking his counterpart the One, the Other undergoes a transformation through conflict and pedai or "fetters." His continued transformation through bonds with others becomes an authentic, but partial, awakening for the Other. At times humorous and at times dark, Pedai investigates the multi-layered and at-times painful connections that humans endure with one another. The anti-heroic narrative of the youthful Other continues in this noir philosophy meditation.

373 pages, Hardcover

Published January 27, 2023