Everything Is Fine: A Memoir | Vince Granata

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 the news that would change his life--his younger brother Tim, propelled by unchecked schizophrenia, had killed their mother in their childhood home.

Devastated by the grief of losing his mother, Vince is also consumed by an act so incomprehensible that it overshadows every happy memory of life growing up in his seemingly idyllic middle-class family. In this ... combination of personal memoir and journalism, Vince examines the disease that irrevocably changed his family's destiny.