PAUL PINES
Friday, March 7 at 7:30 p.m.

Two brothers grow up in a fragmented family in Brooklyn and survive the turbulent years of the 1960s. Then one, formerly regarded as the favored child, has a nervous breakdown during his last year of medical school. His brother—poet and psychiatrist Paul Pines—recounts this story of deep attachment, ambivalence, and love in My Brother's Madness: A Memoir (Curbstone). "With unflinching honesty, My Brother's Madness charts the impossible tangle of loyalty, kindness, bravery, and bitter conflict in the terrible intimacy between the ill and the well. In calm and lucid prose, Pines has much to say about the pains of responsibility and the lurching paths of hope. A remarkable book." - Joan Silber.

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