This week Books by the Numbers stays in "Fast Forward" mode, peeking ahead to the 360s, but without the guest writer.It is our twisted good fortune that bad things happen to gifted writers. How else could we be blessed with so many absorbing and heart-wrenching true stories that litter the literary landscape? Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg (362.196 GR) certainly qualifies as such a story.
Greenberg's book recounts what happened to his family one fateful summer when his daughter, Sally, entered into a psychotic episode. The family's whole life is turned upside down by the excruciating process of watching helpless while a child loses their mind. Oh, yes, and it also should be mentioned that the episode occurred during a lapse of the family's medical insurance!
The account is candid, indeed, and makes for a cannot-put-it-down read. At times, you wonder if a journeyman novelist could generate a more nuanced and motley gallery of characters that populate the rather short book.
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