This is a colourful collection of short stories about man’s attempts to take flight – and our niggling awareness of gravity’s inevitability. Readers get acquainted with depression in the family of an astronaut, mothers of debt collectors, the vastness of space, Mickey Mouse and Marilyn Monroe, to name a few things.

“…here you can find some fantastical tales,
adventures, polemics and surrealism, all mixed
together… These stories contain a great amount
of human understanding that is portrayed in such
a natural way that, at first, you may think that
serious issues are being depicted lightly. However,
you will come to realise, especially with repeated
reading, that the seriousness of the matters discussed cuts much deeper.”
NATIONAL BROADCASTING SERVICE