Set in Tidewater, Virginia, in the 1980's and early 1990's Angelhead documents the violent, drug-addled descent of the author's brother, Michael, into paranoid schizophrenia. From Michael's first psychotic break aged 14 through a series of petty crimes, bizarre disappearances, and suicide attempts to the shocking crime that landed him in the psychiatric wing of a maximum-security prision, Angelhead presents, first-hand, the fragmenting of a mind and a family. This prose offers no consolation or easy answers - simply emotional precision and the satisfaction of hard, unflinching truth.