An unforgettable memoir of madness and family that Esquire named one of the best books of the year A taut, powerful memoir of madness,
Angelhead documents the violent, drug-addled descent of the author's brother, Michael, into schizophrenia. Beginning with Michael's first psychotic break-seeing God in his suburban bedroom window while high on LSD-Greg Bottoms recounts, in gripping, dramatic prose, the bizarre disappearances, suicide attempts, and the shocking crime that land Michael in the psychiatric wing of a maximum security prison. A work of nonfiction with the form and imagery of a novel,
Angelhead enables the reader to witness not only the fragmenting of a mind, but of a family as well.