Mark Vonnegut lay out in search of Eden with his VW insect, his sweetheart, his pup, and his ideals, but genetic predisposition and a lot of **** going down made him crazy in a tradition that told him mental illness is a misconception and schizophrenia is a sane response to an insane society.

Describing his encounters through the late ’60s and early ’70s, Eden Communicate reveals how Mark went from being a recent college grad who was simply in appreciate and living communally on a farm-with a famous, doting father, a cherished pet, and a prized jalopy-to having nervous breakdowns and, eventually, emerging from them to write this book and to discover the meaningful life that had-for a while-seemed out of reach.

But the true story here is that, throughout his harrowing encounter, Mark’s sense of humor let him see the humanity in what he was going right through which his present for language allow him describe it in such a way that others could begin to assume its utter ordinariness aswell as the madness that people all share.