With a universal message on war, Sing before Breakfast is a historical fiction of stellar note, impressive allegory, and surprising tenderness. Powerfully wrought with painstaking accuracy, author and history buff George Stein realistically captures events of the American Civil War and its impact on civilians and their land. Through the eyes of a young boy, a nation is being forged.

In this book, Stein uncovers the meaning behind mentions of mental symptoms found in the Old Testament. The verses of the Old Testament were written with a primary religious intention, but sometimes they reference well-known psychiatric symptoms, which only becomes clear when all religion, history, and myth are stripped away.