Schism

Early 21st century America simmers with colliding ideologies, torn between nostalgia for a romanticized past and yearning for an impossible risk-free future. When such disparate values clash, eruptions lay bare our deepest divisions and resentments, triggering uncontrolled hostility. Utopian visions devolve into vehicles for personal vendettas and blood feuds, capable of cascading into uncontainable turmoil.

This provocative character study peers into modern America’s soul, chronicling the relentless unravelling of societal fabric against gathering storms. Is stability mere illusion when all moorings have been severed?

Donald J. McGraw is a practicing physician who grew up on a small farm in rural southeast Ohio, the son of a county health nurse and the owner of a family-operated nursing home. He attended the US Naval Academy and served six years in the USN. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Maryland and Master’s Degrees in English, Political Science and Public Health from The Johns Hopkins University, where he also taught Writing and Political Science. He has been a school teacher, social worker and advertising account executive, as well as a proofreader, ghostwriter, book reviewer (Baltimore Sunpapers) and author of scientific articles. He lives with his wife, Meredith in Sarasota, Florida and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their children reside in Pittsburgh and Boulder, CO.