A Circle of Earth

A Moving Look At How Lives Are Shaped By Circumstance.. Set In Alabama Between And Following The Two World Wars A Circle Of Earth Tells The Story Of Two Characters’ Attempts To Find Happiness In A World Where Both Lives And Marriages Are Defined Not By Choice But By Circumstance. At Age Seventeen Emma Walks Blindly Into A Marriage That Is Not A Love Match. Her Plight Becomes The Attempt To Exist Within The Confines Of This Relationship. The Limitations Of Henry’S World Are Uniquely Cruel As He Has A Searching And Eager Mind. The Effects Of The Great Depression Worsen His Situation Resulting In His Placement In The State Mental Hospital Where He Forms An Unlikely Bond With A Young Psychiatrist—A Northerner Of Whom He Asks “If Levy Had Ever Loved A Woman. Loved Her So That The Lobe Of An Ear Or The Shape Of Her Mouth Were Little Sights To Almost Hurt A Man’S Heart.”