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This memoir focuses on the everyday struggles a human being encounters while constantly hearing voices telling him or her what they should and shouldn’t be doing. Matt, the main character in this book—and the author, Matthew Littlechild—must battle each and every day to survive. Chronic alcoholism and drug-taking—either of which would cause someone without this man's mental health issues to struggle to survive—severely hamper his chances at a normal life. But he is fortunate in that he meets Samantha. She is his savior, Samantha, and he hangs on to her for dear life!

This is the moving yet deeply disturbing story of a middle-aged mother and a teenaged daughter torn apart by the sudden onset of the mother’s insanity. It details the severe paranoia and absurd delusions that began to control my mother’s behavior. It follows her transformation from loving parent to violent psychotic and my transformation from obedient daughter to terrified runaway. And it depicts the overwhelming revelatory moment when I finally learned she had died - six years before.

It was the spring of 1989. I was 16 years old, a junior in high school and an honors student. I had what every teenager wants: a stable family, a nice home in the suburbs, a great group of friends, big plans for my future, and no reason to believe that any of that would ever change. Then came my mother's psychosis.

“Exquisite. Full of wry humor, tenderness, and compassion.” —Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author A hilarious and heartbreaking memoir about a mother and son’s outlandish odyssey of self-discovery, and the rag-tag community that rallied to help them when they needed it most...