Light of the Dove, One Man's Journey Back Home, a Novel in Three Books: The Calling; Lessons of Home; and Death by Envy, which takes the reader from Atlanta, to Costa Rica, to Chicago, to Ohio, and back to Costa Rica and Surinam, chronicling the protagonist's journey in search of his true self, the lost soul his mother knew, is about family and the quantum connections between mothers and sons, about the interconnectedness that makes us one people under God with deep roots in Mother Africa, about the values of compassion and community versus competition and individualism, about racism and its deep hidden roots, about envy and the dangers of narcissism, about the unique role women and mothers play in making the world a better place.