Rich wrote Beneath Caaqi’s Wings during the Covid crisis. The author and his wife were in a foreign land, having fled to New Zealand, and were forced into close quarters with their younger daughter, who was experiencing the horrors of adolescence. Says Shapero, “I was motivated by the realization that many of the best human qualities—wonder, unfettered love, selflessness, boundless imagination—emerge during years three through eight; and many of our worst qualities—viciousness, bigotry, mob behavior, envy, social exclusion—blossom during adolescence.”