“In this unique exploration, Spanish journalist and novelist Montero unpacks the relationship between creativity and madness. Combining psychological research, literary analyses, author testimonies, and her own experience with anxiety and panic attacks, Montero meditates on the nature of the brain and the forces that drive the writerly impulse... Montero’s theories are consistently intriguing, as is the suspenseful narrative she unfolds... This is rigorous and thrilling.”
Read the full starred review in Publishers Weekly.
