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I Know What It’s Like to Have Your Family in the Headlines for a Horrible Crime. I Also Know What Comes After.
Family There’s no “over”for people dealing with mental illness like Lindsay Clancy—or my brother. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Eleven years ago, I listened to a prosecutor detail how my brother killed our mom. He presented a litany of evidence—bagged knives, coroner’s report, bodycam footage of Tim wailing “I hope she isn’t dead”—to prove that Tim had committed this crime. But no one questioned this fact.
Author Vince Granata
8:42 AM Macdowell fellow Vince Granata will be at Patchouli Joe's on June 29 from noon-3pm. Vince is the author of the memoir, Everything is Fine which was published by Atria Books in 2021. Vince describes his journey to come to terms with his mother's violent death in a breathtaking exploration of grief, healing, and the impact of mental illness on one American family.
Voices on Addiction: If You Give
When I was a kid—five, maybe six years old—I’d ask my mother, again and again, to read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. If you were born in the late eighties, chances are you know this book or the series it spawned—If You Give a Moose a Muffin, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, and so on. The general premise: a cute animal receives a treat that unleashes a series of subsequent requests. These tasks inevitably lead the mouse, moose, or pig to another cookie, muffin, or pancake on the book’s final page.
2021 Summer Reading List for Adults
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Summer is officially in full swing, and for a lot us, that means more time for reading. And sure, you do want to have a few easy, fun reads: books you can bring with you to the beach or while you sip lemonade on your porch. Still, it’s nice to read thought-provoking books that continue to challenge you as you get through these warmer months.
Seven years after his mother's killing, CT native's new memoir confronts the horror of a family murder Original
A quiet cul-de-sac in Orange was shattered by a horrific act in July 2014. Timothy Granata, plagued by schizophrenia and wielding knives and sledgehammers, killed his mother, Claudia, in the living room of their family home. Other family members were not home at the time, and Timothy’s older brother, Vince, was in the Dominican Republic, teaching children to read.
Seven years after his mother's killing, CT native's new memoir confronts the horror of a family murder
A quiet cul-de-sac in Orange was shattered by a horrific act in July 2014. Timothy Granata, plagued by schizophrenia and wielding knives and sledgehammers, killed his mother, Claudia, in the living room of their family home. Other family members were not home at the time, and Timothy’s older brother, Vince, was in the Dominican Republic, teaching children to read.
Book review: 'Everything is Fine' is a groundbreaking memoir
Everything is Fine By ASHLEY RIGGLESON FOR THE FREE LANCE–STAR Representation of schizophrenia in the media is often quite poor, but début memoirist Vince Granata aims to change that in his memoir “Everything is Fine.” At first it seems that Granata is about to take the opposite approach. As the memoir opens, readers become quickly aware that the author’s brother Tim, while in the grips of a psychotic episode, killed their mother.
Confronting the searing pain and haunting memories of a family murder
A quiet cul-de-sac in Orange was shattered by a horrific act in July 2014. Timothy Granata, plagued by schizophrenia and wielding knives and sledgehammers, killed his mother, Claudia, in the living room of their family home. Other family members were not home at the time, and Timothy’s older brother, Vince, was in the Dominican Republic, teaching children to read.
Towards A New Understanding of Psychosis and Violence
I love my brother—and—my brother killed our mother. This pair, this impossible simultaneous truth, is what I learned to hold. There are many more of these pairs, pairs not specific to my family’s story. The vast majority of people with serious mental illnesses are not violent—and—some people with untreated psychotic disorders can be.
Everything Is Fine: A Memoir
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April’s Best Nonfiction Crime Books
CrimeReads editors select the month’s best new nonfiction crime books. * The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense By Edward White (W.W. Norton & Co.) White’s study of Hitchcock is an endlessly engaging and insightful read, breaking down the Master of Suspense’s life into twelve aspects, each illuminated with clever analysis of the director’s work.
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