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THE BEST MINDS - JONATHAN ROSEN KARTONIERT (TB)

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times  The Wall
Street Journal  The Atlantic  Slate  and PeopleOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of
2023Brave and nuanced . . . an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” —The New
York TimesImmensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.” —The Wall Street JournalAcclaimed
author Jonathan Rosen’s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood
friend  Michael Laudor  from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric
hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship  love 
and the price of self-delusion  The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand—and
fail to understand—mental illness.When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973  Jonathan Rosen
and Michael Laudor became inseparable. Both children of college professors  the boys were best
friends and keen competitors  and  when they both got into Yale University  seemed set to join
the American meritocratic elite. Michael blazed through college in three years  graduating
summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job. But all wasn’t as it seemed. One day 
Jonathan received the call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was in the
locked ward of a psychiatric hospital. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia  Michael was still
battling delu­sions when he traded his halfway house for Yale Law School. Featured in The New
York Times as a role model genius  he sold a memoir  with film rights to Ron Howard. But then
Michael  in the grip of an unshakeable paranoid fantasy  stabbed his girlfriend Carrie to death
and became a front-page story of an entirely different sort. Tender  funny  and harrowing by
turns  The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen’s magnificent and heartbreaking account of good
intentions and tragic outcomes whose significance will echo widely.

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