Böcker av Stephen J Groak

The year 2020 marks the centennial anniversary of Paramahansa Yogananda''s arrival in Boston, Massachusetts, aboard The City of Sparta with the mission of bringing the sacred technique of Kriya Yoga to the West. This collection of poems is dedicated to Paramahansa Yogananda and his spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi.

Through the dynamic interplay between memory and imagination, Stephen J. Groak explores his colorful childhood in 1970s West Auckland, New Zealand, in a collection of twenty-seven stand-alone short stories. With Nigel Sorenson as an alter ego, Groak experiments with POV in a hodgepodge of voices and tales that gel like the English-style breakfast bubble and squeak—a meal traditionally made on a Sunday morning from the leftovers of the previous evening's roast dinner. From childhood loss, terrifying visits to the primary school murder house, and Huckleberry Finn–type adventures with sister-mate Helen to discoveries of American fast food, the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and women, Bubble ’n’ Squeak: A Collection of Short Storiesoffers teenage and adult readers a poignant and humorous portrait of a Kiwi country boy’s coming-of-age Down Under.