{"product_id":"9780299310080","title":"Lithium Jesus: A Memoir of Mania","description":"Charles Monroe-Kane is a natural raconteur, and boy, does he have stories to tell. Born into an eccentric Ohio clan of modern hunter-gatherers, he grew up hearing voices in his head. Over a dizzying two decades, he was many things—teenage faith healer, world traveler, smuggler, liberation theologian, ladder-maker, squatter, halibut hanger, grifter, environmental warrior, and circus manager—all the while wrestling with schizophrenia and self-medication.\u003cbr\u003e             From Baby Doc’s Haiti to the Czech Velvet Revolution, and from sex, drugs, and a stabbing to public humiliation by the leader of the free world, Monroe-Kane burns through his twenties and several bridges of youthful idealism before finally saying: enough.\u003cbr\u003e             In a memoir that blends engaging charm with unflinching frankness, Monroe-Kane gives his testimony of mental illness, drug abuse, faith, and love. By the end of \u003ci\u003eLithium Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e there may be a voice in your head, too, saying “Do more, be more, live more. And fear less.”","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183398830320,"sku":"9780299310080","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780299310080_p0.jpg?v=1763683279","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780299310080","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}