The book is a compilation of essays about his experience from first inviting his now-wife to America for a new life to the beauty of hope with two young children. David Haldane is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer  with over twenty years of experience at that publication. His two previous books are the award-winning memoir, Nazis & Nudists, and a short-story collection called Jenny on the Street. When David’s not writing books, he  produces a weekly newspaper column called Expat Eye, for one of Mindanao’s premiere news outlets, the Mindanao Gold Star Daily.