The Red Arrow (Paperback)

Paperback. When a once-promising young writer agrees to ghostwrite a famous physicists memoir, his livelihood is already in jeopardy: Plagued by debt, hes grown distant from his wife and is haunted by an overwhelming sense of dread he describes as The Mist. Then, things get worse: The physicist vanishes, leaving everything in limbo, including our narrators sanity."Among the most accurate and insightful depictions of depression Ive ever read." Los Angeles Times"Brewers earnest description of psilocybin therapy turns a bravura comic novel into something deeper and stranger: an account of unexpected, hard-won joy. VogueIn an attempt rid himself of "The Mist," the young writer undergoes an experimental, psychedelic treatment and finds his world completely transformed: Joy suffuses every moment. For the first time, he understands himself in a larger, universal context, and feels his life shift, refract, and crack open to reveal his past and future alike.Moving swiftly from a chemical spill in West Virginia to Silicon Valley, from a Brooklyn art studio to a high-speed train racing across the Italian countryside, The Red Arrow wades into the shadowy depths of the human psyche only to emerge, as if speeding through a mile-long tunnel, into a world that is so bright and wondrous, it almost feels completely new. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.