num_pages: 225
description: A taut, powerful memoir of madness, Angelhead documents the violent, drug-addled descent of the author's brother, Michael, into schizophrenia. Beginning with Michael's first psychotic break—seeing God in his suburban bedroom window while high on LSD—Greg Bottoms recounts, in gripping, dramatic prose, the bizarre disappearances, suicide attempts, and the shocking crime that land Michael in the psychiatric wing of a maximum security prison. A work of nonfiction with the form and imagery of a novel, Angelhead enables the reader to witness not only the fragmenting of a mind, but of a family as well.
language: English
title: Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness
titlecomplete: Angelhead: My Brother's Descent into Madness
genres: Medical, Mental Health, Sociology, Psychology, Biography Memoir, Biography, Health, Memoir, Nonfiction, Mental Illness
ratings_count: 899
publisher: University of Chicago Press