Don't Mess with Mimosa

The sub-title of the book is 'a tale of two entities'. The first entity takes place in New York City where a boy grows up as a typical street-smart kid, fighting and stealing and playing in the streets. After graduation from high school, his closest friend goes to college to study finance and the stock market and, he encourages his friend to study from his text books so he can some day get a good job in financial institutions, which he does, and becomes very successful. He gets soured on the life in the big city with the New Yorkers becoming belligerent and ill tempered, not life he embellishes, so he wants a change. He winds up in the wilderness of the panhandle of New York State, which is totally opposite of what he was used to. The second entity puts him in a primitive environment where he has to learn to live a different lifestyle and he generates a future with an Indian maiden where they start a family. The adventure of living in the wild is now his passion, and he wouldn't change it for anything.