Angelhead

"Is a blood bond strong enough to insulate against hate? That's the core issue the Greg Bottoms examines in his brutal, mesmerizing pseudo-memoir. . . .  Angelhead is a brilliant, albeit inconceivably sad book. The fact that Bottoms survived the ordeal is incredible. But the fact that he could write about it with such pathos and insight is nothing less than extraordinary."—John D. Jones, Atlanta Constitution-Journal

"Greg Bottoms has provided a biographical novel about his brother that may be as close as most of us will ever get to knowing what it is to be truly mad. Angelhead is a story nearly as terrifying as the disease it describes."—Psychology Today

"One of the most harrowing portraits of madness in recent memory."

"From 'Angelhead's' stirring first line, 'My brother saw the face of God' . . . Greg Bottom maps out the seemingly unmappable destruction of a family in suburbia. This is creative nonfiction at its finest."—John-Henry Doucette, Virginian-Pilot

"A tour-de-force memoir. . . . Bottoms writes like a poet, he writes as if he's on fire."--Esquire, a 'Book of the Year' (2000)

"One of the saddest, scariest and most powerful memoirs I've read."—Linnea Lannon, Detroit Free Press

"I am on record as believing that any day is better when I am not asked to read another memoir. But Greg Bottoms' book caught my attention immediately and drew me in. I read it all in one sitting. . . . Angelhead is direct, inventive, clearly imagined, and packs a punch."

"The whole work has the beauty of hard, painful truth, arrived at through intelligence, art, and compassion. This is one of the most moving books I've read in a long, long time."