Lithium Jesus: A Memoir of Mania

By Charles Monroe-Kane

Book Overview

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."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299310000
• ISBN13: 9780299310004
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"