Born in Sweden, Author Ronnog Seaberg (1922-2007) earned degrees in literature and religion from the University of Uppsala. She met her Chicago-born husband while he was visiting relatives in her native country. The couple moved to Spain, wed in Morocco and moved to America in 1970. After living in the slums of New York City for several years, they
eventually settled in Atlanta, Georgia. After desegragation, Atlanta was a place where Afro-Americans had gained political power and where their mix-race adopted children would have equal advantages for schooling.
This book is about their trials, occupations and life as artists through poetry, gymnastics, and in the free-thinking times of 1996 when they joined a group of nude performers where they performed acrobatics while reciting poetry.