Erik Segall, author of NOT YET (Harvard Square Editions), Gold winner of the Book Excellence Award, recipient of the Silver Medal in the Living Now Book Awards for “books that have changed your life” and the Bronze Medal in Literary Fiction for the 26th Annual Colorado Independent Publishers Association (CIPA) EVVY Book Awards.
Aaron Clifton, a social worker at the Suicide Prevention & Crisis Hotline Center, is tormented by the request to help his ailing grandmother kill herself.
A literary, psychological novel imbued with social commentary, Not Yet reflects on the depressive conditions that lead to suicide. This introspective, in-depth character study of a single father, who is utterly surrounded by women, details the emotional struggle of raising a teenage daughter while confronting the imminent demise of his grandmother slowly engulfed by Alzheimer’s. The dark theme of suicide is uplifted by musings on race, religion, history and feminism, and with humor occurring suddenly in the midst of dialogue-driven Socratic therapy. Not Yet offers a temporally-deconstructed glimpse of a man conflicted by the contemplation of assisting his grandmother in death.
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Unmake your mind. A warrior is one who retains correct posture regardless of circumstance.
caveat viator: an author (actually a writer who does more wrong than write) and a traveler (who despises traveling) and a martial artist (yet also a pacifist).
After earning a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Colorado and a Master of Arts in the Eastern Classic from St. John’s College, Erik taught for several years at the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind. He volunteered at the Pueblo Suicide Prevention Center until its untimely demise and currently serves as a contributing writer for the Pueblo Chieftain, Colorado’s oldest daily newspaper.
Born in Spain, crash landed in Pueblo, Colorado. High school teacher of English/Philosophy for a decade and martial arts instructor for over 20 years having recently attained the rank of 4th Degree Black Belt. Volunteer at Community Soup Kitchen, Posada of Pueblo for homeless services, PSPC – Pueblo Suicide Prevention Center and PRCS – Pueblo Rape Crisis Services.
