What We Are Reading Today: The Best Minds

Author: Jonathan Rosen

“The Best Minds” is Jonathan Rosen’s brilliant and heartbreaking account of an American tragedy.  
“The Best Minds” is a deeply sad book. It is a story about the bonds of family, friendship, and community; the promise of intellectual achievement; and the lure of utopian solutions.
Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, at times almost unbearably sad, “The Best Minds”  is an extreme version of a story that is tragically familiar to all too many.
In the hands of a writer of Rosen’s dedication, its significance will echo widely.
Rosen is a superb chronicler of childhood, friendship, aging, cultural history, and the impact of mental — on both the individual and the societal levels).
“A tragic story about a childhood friend … Michael Laudor’s tragic life deeply affected the author,” said a review on Goodreads.com.