Lithium Jesus : : a Memoir of Mania
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"Charles Monroe-Kane is a natural raconteur, and boy, does he have stories to tell. Born into an eccentric Ohio clan of modern hunter-gatherers, he grew up hearing voices in his head. Over a dizzying two decades, he was many things--teenage faith healer, world traveler, smuggler, liberation theologian, ladder-maker, squatter, halibut hanger, grifter, environmental warrior, and circus manager--all the while wrestling with schizophrenia and self-medication. From Baby Doc's Haiti to the Czech Velvet Revolution, and from sex, drugs, and a stabbing to public humiliation by the leader of the free world, Monroe-Kane burns through his twenties and several bridges of youthful idealism before finally saying: enough. In a memoir that blends engaging charm with unflinching frankness, Monroe-Kane gives his testimony of mental illness, drug abuse, faith, and love. By the end of Lithium Jesus there may be a voice in your head, too, saying "Do more, be more, live more. And fear less"" -- dust jacket flap.
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PUBLISHED
Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2016]
Year Published: 2016
Description: ix, 185 pages ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780299310004
0299310000
SUBJECTS
Monroe-Kane, Charles.
Broadcasters -- Biography.
Mentally ill -- Biography.
Autobiographies.