The Red Arrow A Novel

Description: When a once - promising young writer agrees to ghostwrite a famous physicist's memoir his livelihood is already in jeopardy: Plagued by debt he's 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 narrator's sanity." Among the most accurate and insightful depictions of depression I ve ever read." Los Angeles Times" Brewer's earnest description of psilocybin therapy turns a bravura comic novel into something deeper and stranger: an account of unexpected hard - won joy. Vogue In 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.
Title: The Red Arrow A Novel
Barcode: 9780593314432
Publication Date: 4/11/2023