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Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
Author BK writes of the ups and downs of his life in this story of his life as one of the baby boomers. He was born to older parents who moved after World War II from Maine down to Newton which is outside Boston, Massachusetts. With an ancestor who fought with the "Charge of the Light Brigade" and another uncle who was a member of the "Boston Tea Party" and lived to a very old age, the author doesn't live on family merits and tells quite honestly of his life as a Gemini. On page 61, he says "I lived two completely different lives, one oblivious to the other." On the same page he writes that a high school girlfriend told him that "everything that I had done in the past that reflected evil was perpetrated by Al; while the honest and good deeds I had performed were done by Bert". The author gets into selling drugs, gets shot but leaves the hospital before the police arrive, finds a career teaching culinary arts at Brookline High School after working in restaurants for a number of years, and marries two women, first Beth, then Kathy who gives him his three sons Jarrett, Travis and Myles. Author Bk does not sugarcoat any part of his life and this makes "Odyssey of a Gemini" one honest book to read.
On the last page (page 340) of "Odyssey of a Gemini" the author really goes at the reader, asking "Did you enjoy the read? I rather doubt it." BK's premise is that we must all come to terms with who we really are and he has laid out in this autobiography just who he is and what he did throughout his life. His story is well-written, with a few typographical errors, and the author is brutally honest about growing up not so finely in the 1960's and 1970's when values were tested and then questioned. "Odyssey of a Gemini" is a good read for those brave enough to look at themselves and the society in a realistic light.
