{"product_id":"botany-of-madness","title":"Botany of Madness","description":"With depression, alcoholism, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia spread across his family tree, the odds are not in his favour. So, he does what any analytically minded man might do: he tries to calculate the statistical probability of his own madness. What follows is a restless, darkly comic journey - from New York to Paris to Vienna - as he tries to outrun a fate that seems written into his DNA, only to end up working as a psychologist inside the very institution he's spent his life fearing.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e There, surrounded by stories that echo his own family's, he begins to see with a new, hard-earned clarity. In this bestselling German debut, a potent blend of memoir and fiction, Engler unravels a compassionate tale of reconciliation in which the protagonist is forced to confront a question he has avoided all his life: What is normal?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Irresistible. A book that is at once grave and light, tender and tough, satirical and earnest.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e-Siri Hustvedt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'A daring debut novel from a promising new literary voice, Germany's Leon Engler ... Quirky and bittersweet, \u003ci\u003eBotany of Madness\u003c\/i\u003e is just right for Christian Kracht and Katharina Volckmer fans ... phenomenal, darkly comic.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Illuminating ... moves at a roving pace ... \u003ci\u003eBotany of Madness\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting novel in which a man weighs mental illness with prismatic precision, his work involving scientific classifications, autofiction, and memory.'\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Botany of Madness","offer_id":50947518824645,"sku":null,"price":37.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-76138-226-0.jpg?v=1794449634","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/botany-of-madness","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}