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September-October 2021

Everything is Fine by Vince Granata
Everything is Fine by Vince Granata is an extraordinarily moving memoir about grief, mental illness, and the bonds of family in which a writer delves into the tragedy of his mother’s violent death at the hands of his brother who struggled with schizophrenia. 

Vince Granata remembers standing in front of his suburban home in Connecticut the day his mother and father returned from the hospital with his three new siblings in tow. He had just finished scrawling their names in red chalk on the driveway: Christopher, Timothy, and Elizabeth.

Twenty-three years later, Vince was a thousand miles away when he received shocking news that would change his life—his younger brother, Tim, propelled by unchecked schizophrenia, had killed their mother in their childhood home. Not only devastated by the grief of losing his mother, Vince is consumed by the act itself, so incomprehensible that it overshadows every happy memory of life growing up in a seemingly idyllic middle-class family.

In an extraordinary feat of willpower, he decides to examine the disease that irrecoverably changed his family’s destiny and piece together his brother’s story. In this vibrant combination of personal memoir and journalism, Vince begins the painstaking process of recovering the image of his remarkable mother and salvaging the love for his brother as he faces trial for their mother’s murder.

Written in stark, precise, and beautiful prose, Everything is Fine is a powerful and reaffirming portrait of loss and forgiveness.
LIVE Q&A with Author Vince Granata
✦ October 28th at 8p ET

Vince Granata received his BA in history from Yale University and his MFA in creative writing from American University. He has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, the I-Park Foundation, and the Ucross Foundation, and residencies from PLAYA and MacDowell. His work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Chattahoochee Review, and Fourth Genre, and has been listed as Notable in Best American Essays 2018 and Best American Essays 2020.

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