Good Book Get! Lowboy

John Wray’s Lowboy is one of my favorite novels of 2009 and it happens to be my favorite novel of paranoid schizophrenia ever. It’s a depressing tour of the psyche of a young sixteen year old schizo off of his meds and the writing matches seamlessly with his conscience.

At times the novel can be hard to read but once it begins to roll it becomes a snowball and eventually it really blows your mind by the last fifteen pages. It’s suspenseful, dirty, and grotesque, and it it captures a splice in time surrounding one lost boy’s journey to save the world from global warming, and which of course once you realize his feeble and gross attempt at saving the world - well it all becomes very depressing.

Not a pick me up novel, but something to entertain and of course make you consider today’s societal implications and medical solutions regarding such sicknesses as paranoid schizophrenia.