Completing the Circle

From the darkest tunnel through a prism David A. Kates renders the life and death of his mother Judy with searing love and feisty insight. The voice of this young poet-son lingers long after the burn of the final phrase.</p><p> --Martha Fuller</p><p>Instructor Otis College of Art + Design UCLA Extension and UC Irvine Extension</p><p>What does a person do when his mother passes away from metastatic breast cancer and he inherits grief a townhouse guilt lipstick-stained tissues flowers a baby grand piano melancholia and a highly altered life?</P><P>He writes!</P><P><I>Completing the Circle: A Son's Memoir</I> is vivid storytelling set in a much-loved home among the stark mountains and vast Pacific Ocean of Pacific Palisades CA.</P><P><I>Completing the Circle</I> mixes poetry and short stories to shed light on cancer mortality the mother/son relationship bereavement happiness and dealing with change.</P><P><I>Completing the Circle</I> concludes:</P>A lot of tears stain this book<BR>As well as<BR>A lot of hope for a vigorous future.