Circles Around the Sun: In Search of a Lost Brother

An author attempts to uncover who her older brother was before schizophrenia took hold of him in this "clear-eyed and heartbreaking" memoir (Publishers Weekly).

Molly McClosky's brother Mike was fourteen when she was born. So far apart in age, she barely knew him before schizophrenia took hold of him at the age of twenty-three. Within a few years, Mike's world began to fall apart. By the time Molly was old enough to begin to know him, Mike was heavily medicated and frequently delusional, li...