"A compassionate, heartrending memoir of a mother's quest to accept her son's journey through psychosis. One night in 2009, Tanya Frank finds her nineteen-year-old son, Zach--gentle and full of promise--in the grip of what the psychiatrists would label a psychotic break. Suddenly and inexplicably, Tanya is thrown into a parallel universe: Zach's world, where the phones are bugged, his friends have joined the Mafia, and helicopters are spying on his...

Grace, sixteen, fears that she will succumb to the schizophrenia that took her mother away, while she and her father work for a genetics lab rushing to find a cure.

Mildred Pierce: Mildred sacrifices her life for her greedy daughter, divoring her husband, and building a career as a restaurant owner. Humoresque: Glamourous socialite Helen Wright takes what she wants--clothes, alcohol, men--ues them up and tosses them aside. Then she meets a brilliant young violinist--but this one she can't break. Possessed: When callow David Sutton chooses to marry someone else, Louise Howell's love for him takes a dark murderous...

Alberto is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, living in New York City, and is now suspected of a terrible crime; his friend Grace is a top student with every advantage, and she is determined to prove Alberto's innocence.

Explores the discovery, invention, science, and people behind today's major psychotropic drugs, from the earliest, Thorazine and Lithium, through Prozac and Ecstasy, to today's most cutting-edge memory drugs and neural implants.