Phillip J Powers

Full Circle: a Son's Internal Family Journey Phillip J Powers

Full Circle is a novel chronicling a family's journey though the 20th. century. Set amid a backdrop of real historical events, Full Circle explores a family's relationship with the times as well as each other. After an unsuccessful suicide attempt on Christmas Eve, David Wallace starts a psychological journey to discover himself and the reasons that brought him to that desperate state of mind. The further away the family participants attempt to flee the controlling love of the grandmother and matriarch of the family, Marianna, a woman whose religion is bound up in superstition, the more they are drawn into the Full Circle of repeating many of the behaviors they had hoped to escape from. Will David be able to exorcise his family baggage demons and heal himself and his own family? Is anyone truly immune from the Full Circle of their past and the prospect of repeating it? Full Circle is a never-ending journey of discovery.