Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See

An NPR Great Read: This novel about bipolar disorder and one man's journey through the world is a "convincing portrait of mental illness" (Entertainment Weekly).
 
This tour-de-force novel takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd--a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter for a decade to travel the globe, finally giving free rein to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost twenty years.
 
The story intricately weaves together three timelines--Greyson's wanderings to Rome, to Israel, to Santiago, to Thailand, to Uganda; the progressive unraveling of his own father as seen through Greyson's childhood memories; and the intricacies and estrangements of his marriage--all of which unfolds in a narrative spanning twelve thirty-second electroshock treatments in a New York psychiatric ward.