Mick, Rusty, Danny, and Jack were musically gifted in their youth but didn’t have a ‘hook’ to take their band to the next level. Time marches on in individual directions — marriage, Vietnam, divorce, PTSD, drugs, and alcohol. In their golden years, Mick’s “ill-begotten [bleep]” drops him into a retirement home, and the revelry, music, romance, and hilarity begin — with laughter and tears for all.
Full Circle is a laugh-out-loud, “Borsht Belt humor” journey through the ups and downs of the lives of four septuagenarian musicians, while cutting a gut-wrenching depth and eye-opening look into PTSD, holocaust and WWII heroism, and our ignored or forgotten aging citizens residing in nursing homes. Mick’s ingenuity (engineering a notable hook) and nostalgia for his band reunites the four aging friends as they brighten the depressive shadow looming over the nursing home while revealing how every life has a story and something to teach us if we pay attention. The story ends with a truly delightful acknowledgement of who the characters in the story are based upon in real life.

Fiction
Full Circle
- From the Publisher
September 1, 2024
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