BEST MINDS (PB)

A novelist's gripping investigation of the forces that led his childhood best friend, Michael Laudor, from academic stardom to the psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen's powerful account of an American tragedy, set in the final decades of the American century, an era that coincided with the emptying out of state mental hospitals. It is a story about the bonds of friendship, the price of delusion and the mystery of identity.