Like Crazy Life with my Mother and Her Invisible Friends

 I loved this book and I knew I would, right away, from reading the publishers summary, so if you’ve read the summary and believe you will enjoy this book, go ahead & buy it because you may want to read it more than once. 

The great thing about this book? It such a timely book! It has so much positive energy and in 2020 (pandemic & election year) there is a sore lacking of it. Like Crazy...is filled with love, family, friendships, people helping people & people actually accepting the assistance of others, and so much resilience.  By the time I was done with the book, it occurred to me that Dan Mathews must be an excellent judge of character because he sure has assembled a wonderful, loving support group. 

Dan Mathews, author, has agreed to buy a run down Victorian home and have his ill mother flown across the country to live with him. He is single, he travels frequently for work, he has never owned a house and he’s struggling with maintenance.  His mother Perry arrives, loves the house right away and decides to stay. This begins a new chapter in each of their lives. Perry is an elderly single mother and undiagnosed schizophrenic... Just take a moment and think what life for her must have been to successfully hide, disguise, camouflage such an illness her whole life? What about being a child of hers? Its amazing, really. That’s why I love this book! Dan, Perry, and the people around them persevere, remain humble & kind, they focus on the positive without fail. I’m sure there are plenty of difficult times that could’ve been focused on, but not in this book.  This book is a joy to read because it is not a I’m-a-mess-&-it’s-my-mother’s-fault book. 

Thank you so much to Netgalley and Atria books for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.