![]() “Something bad is going to happen,” he told her in the kitchen. ![]() On the morning of his mother’s death, he warned her that those devils were winning. And he struggled, in his mind quite literally, with devils he communicated with via Google. He tossed salt on his parents as they slept. Tim had wrestled in high school at 270 pounds, and at 23, he was still gigantic, living at home, sleeping through the days and spending nights in the basement lifting weights while his psychosis was slowly dominating him. The author - then 27, a Yale graduate, an English teacher - was in the Dominican Republic, teaching children how to read. The rest of the family was out of the house that day, working, shopping, visiting friends. “Everything Is Fine” is the succinct and haunting title of Vince Granata’s imperfect memoir of how his brother Tim, suffering from schizophrenia, bound their mother’s wrists with duct tape one July afternoon in 2014 and killed her in the family room of their house in Orange, Conn., using two serrated knives and two sledgehammers. But it’s hard to summon compassion, or action, from beneath a hopeful fog. Evasion might be easier - if you don’t acknowledge the dysfunction in the people you love, the delusion goes, then maybe you can avoid the loss, the grief. But what kind, and can you ever see it coming? It’s this, the ability to recognize and cope with crisis, that can mean the difference between life and death. Trouble comes to every family eventually. EVERYTHING IS FINE A Memoir By Vince Granata
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