This tour-de-force novel takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd-a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter for a decade to travel the globe, finally giving free rein to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost twenty years. The story intricately weaves together three timelines-Greyson's wanderings to Rome, to Israel, to Santiago, to Thailand, to Uganda; the progressive unraveling of his own father as seen through Greyson's childhood memories; and the intricacies and estrangements of his marriage-all of which unfolds in a narrative spanning twelve thirty-second electroshock treatments in a New York psychiatric ward.
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