Yearning To Touch The Sky

About the Book

“Yearning to Touch the Sky” is an amusing fable about one single individual’s search for a place to inhale and exhale freely. It is a tale about a painstaking journey to a new state of mind. The fictional story touches as a corollary on issues of race, class, sex and heterosexism.

The author, Grover of America, calls for the birth of a new existence….a spiritual rebirth. He says; “we are part of the past and a part of the future, but because of our short memory, we have become prisoners of the present, prisoners of the market, afraid of listening to the wisdom of our ancestors.”

This is a cry in the dark…against anachronistic colonialists, fanatical neo-liberals, racists, right neo-radicals and religious fundamentalists of whatever color. It is an appeal against the perversion of violence and a plea for respecting human uniqueness and the heterogeneity inherent in human societies.

About the Author

The author was born and raised in the American Deep South. He says of his small hometown that it was “a racist, sexist, homophobic and class-oriented barbaric place”, where a bunch of mad men and women lived, who believed in one God, one religion, one nation, one tribe and one race. “I realized very early of age that some folks have a deficient idea of justice and fairness. They believe that justice is meant only for themselves.” This realization motivated the author to study economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City, where he received a Ph.d in Economics and Political Economy. He is also the founder of the Saint Maurice Organization for Democratic Behavior and Political Correctness, which offers seminars in race, class, gender, and heterosexism. He writes, paints, and lives with his life’s partner, dog and cat in a small wine growing village near Stuttgart, Germany. The author says, “I was motivated to write “Yearning To Touch The Sky” after a black man, a ‘brother’ told me that homosexuality was a ‘white man’s sickness’; a ‘phenomenon of decay’; a ‘cancer’, which would eventually destroy the body and society. I could no longer allow this myth to go unchallenged and decided not to allow odious people try to rob me of my belief in my own worth.”