Growing Up, Growing Old

This fast moving and inspiring book is a story of interesting, sometimes intriguing , life events laced with insights from Dr. Uzoka's wide ranging clinical experience and extensive travels in Africa, Europe, the Americas, the Caribbean, and several other countries. With early beginnings in Nigeria and later studying and working in the United States of America, the book covers various life experiences that have universal relevance. A lover of nature, this author invites the reader into a world of romance with nature things and engages the reader in an appreciation of the contradictions of life and yet a romance with living, whatever the circumstances of life may be. The author takes the reader through significant nuancesof his Igbo culture where issues like reincarnation, sex, roles, and other social questions are now confronted with different contending notions of life in a new globalized world. Witty and often times downright funny, this book, written in an easy pleasant style - oftentimes, the author seems to be in direct dialogue with the reader instead of merely telling a story - is fast paced in a unique narrative style that is theme focused so that the narrative takes the reader along in short but incisive segments, whether it be about love, about marriage, about death, or about prejudice, or some plain human folly. The book is laced with apt poetry - about womanhood, about nature and other themes. This book brings the basic elements of human nature into focus, a truly fascinating narrative of human experience that makes very exciting and rewarding reading.