"KING CLOWN"--from author MARK LAGES--insights gleaned from reflections on an odd legacy left by his father lead a man to a new turning point in his life

King Clown

Adam Stern is a sixty-four-year-old husband, father, and architect whose dad passes away and leaves Adam nothing but a shoe box containing four strange and seemingly worthless items. There is a brass button, a pocketknife, and a bird's feather. There is also a single page torn from a poetry book, and Adam reads the poem over and over. It gradually comes to life, and it shines a healing light of the absurd on Adam's world, transforming his entire outlook on life.

MY REVIEW: Life is definitely a circus, and as author Mark Lages says: "It wouldn't be a circus without the clowns.".  His book "King Clown" is the story of Adam Stern, an architect in his mid-sixties who is recovering from pneumonia and reflecting upon the strange legacy left to him by his late father:  four  odd items in a shoe box.  The contents would appear to be a random collection--an old brass button from a military uniform, a feather from a seagull, a pocketknife from the 1962 World's Fair, and a copy of a quirky poem called "The Parade". The poem tells of clowns. all kinds of clowns, preceded by a marching band and rolling through a town in a hectic comic tumble, all leading up to the appearance of "King Clown. Adam finds the poem interesting, but puzzling--what message was his father trying to send? By the time you have reached the age of sixty, you have met many clowns, and you yourself have been a clown too many times (I should know). As Adam reflects upon his life and tries to discern the meaning of the shoe box and its contents, enlightenment begins to trickle through. Author Mark Lages has a unique storytelling presence, and his writing is a breath of fresh air to puff you out of your comfort reading zone. As I sit here writing this review in my oversized suspender pants and great big floppy shoes, I realize that Mark Lages has perfectly captured the essence of my favorite self-quote: "If you laugh, you'll live." Yep--that's what it's really all about.

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