Son of Rebel Bookseller

I AM NOT MY SO-CALLED ILLNESS This celebration of Samuel Laties braids his visionary and humorous fiction, poetry, and essays together with Andrew Laties’ reminiscences—along with the tale of Andy’s struggle to invest Sam’s death with meaning by rescuing a legendary bookstore. In counterpoint, son and father explore mortality and redemption, mental illness and creativity, education and exploitation, morality and hypocrisy, and the transcendent power of imagination.   SAMUEL LATIES was publi