The Eden Express: A Memoir of Schizopherenia

Mark Vonnegut was a recent college graduate, self-avowed hippie, and son of a counterculture hero - until the nervous breakdowns hit in all their slow-motion intimacy…Described with a taste of mortality, grim despair and a relentless sense of humour, the illness that plagued Vonnegut is here transformed into an experience of growth and change. Simultaneously ironic and sincere in its humanism, the real story here is not only that Vonnegut managed to find the sanity that once seemed beyond reach, but that his gift of language helped him to share with us all both the utter ordinariness of illness and the madness we all share.