Everything is fine : a memoir /
Granata, Vince,
Everything is fine : a memoir / Vince Granata. - First Atria Books hardcover edition. - 297 pages ; 24 cm
"Vince Granata remembers standing in front of his suburban home in Connecticut the day his mother and father returned from the hospital with his three new siblings in tow. He had just finished scrawling their names in orange chalk on the driveway: Christopher, Timothy, and Elizabeth. Twenty-three years later, Vince was a thousand miles away when he received shocking news that would change his life-his younger brother, Tim, propelled by unchecked schizophrenia, had killed their mother in their childhood home. Not only devastated by the grief of losing his mother, Vince is consumed by the act itself, so incomprehensible that it overshadows every happy memory of life growing up in a seemingly idyllic middle-class family. In an extraordinary feat of willpower, he decides to examine the disease that irrecoverably changed his family's destiny and piece together his brother's story. In this vibrant combination of personal memoir and journalism, Vince begins the painstaking process of recovering the image of his remarkable mother and salvaging the love for his brother as he faces trial for their mother's murder. Written in stark, precise, and beautiful prose, Everything Is Fine is a powerful and reaffirming portrait of loss and forgiveness"--
9781982133443 1982133449 9781982133450 1982133457
2020039378
Granata, Vince.
Granata, Vince--Family.
Granata, Timothy.
Parricide--Connecticut.
Parricide--United States.
Murder--Connecticut.
Murder--United States.
Schizophrenics--Family relationships--United States.
Autobiographies.
True crime stories.
Biographies.
Everything is fine : a memoir / Vince Granata. - First Atria Books hardcover edition. - 297 pages ; 24 cm
"Vince Granata remembers standing in front of his suburban home in Connecticut the day his mother and father returned from the hospital with his three new siblings in tow. He had just finished scrawling their names in orange chalk on the driveway: Christopher, Timothy, and Elizabeth. Twenty-three years later, Vince was a thousand miles away when he received shocking news that would change his life-his younger brother, Tim, propelled by unchecked schizophrenia, had killed their mother in their childhood home. Not only devastated by the grief of losing his mother, Vince is consumed by the act itself, so incomprehensible that it overshadows every happy memory of life growing up in a seemingly idyllic middle-class family. In an extraordinary feat of willpower, he decides to examine the disease that irrecoverably changed his family's destiny and piece together his brother's story. In this vibrant combination of personal memoir and journalism, Vince begins the painstaking process of recovering the image of his remarkable mother and salvaging the love for his brother as he faces trial for their mother's murder. Written in stark, precise, and beautiful prose, Everything Is Fine is a powerful and reaffirming portrait of loss and forgiveness"--
9781982133443 1982133449 9781982133450 1982133457
2020039378
Granata, Vince.
Granata, Vince--Family.
Granata, Timothy.
Parricide--Connecticut.
Parricide--United States.
Murder--Connecticut.
Murder--United States.
Schizophrenics--Family relationships--United States.
Autobiographies.
True crime stories.
Biographies.