The author, Angelo Crapanzano was ninety-six years old when he finished his fourteenth novel. After that novel was published he could not think of any subject that would be good for his next novel. About six months later he got a very serious throat infection. After eight days in the hospital he went home. Due to the problem he had he could not lay down flat. That would cause the mucus to go down the throat and cause coughing and blocked his breathing. At home, for a week he had to sleep on a Recliner that keeps his body in a partial sitting position. His family finally got him a bed that had ends that could be raised in a half-sitting position. That was fine for him. However, there was a side effect when lying on your back even if it was in a half-sitting position. It was that it gave a person strange dreams. Author Mr. Crapanzano had these dreams. They were like short stories. Half of the stories in this novel were obtained from the author's dreams.