TRIGGERS: thoughts/talk of suicide, attempted suicide, toxic relationships/friendship, alcohol/drug use, mental health.
Well Street Noise Books, you did it again with Christi Furnas and their Crazy Like a Fox: Adventures in Schizophrenia. This time, however, I both hated and loved a book from you. This is a surreal satire that is an all too realistic story of how one person (or Fox) goes down the rabbit hole of madness, but really it was just a bit twisted and would eventually start upwards again. Things are crazy (excuse me, we don’t use the crazy word). Things are out there, nuts, looney, coo-coo birdie! Things are the most normal thing in the world.
Who doesn’t go to a party they learned about from a flier? Who doesn’t leave their phone number on a napkin for a stranger? Who doesn’t talk to spiders who drink their beer? Or squirrels good at hiding nut cases? Who doesn’t move in with Dodo after all the crud they put you through? These things and more are Fox’s adventures, misadventures and insanity of trying to admit they need help, trying to get help and when they finally do, how hard it is to try and actually get better. 
The art is my least favorite part of the book, but fits it perfectly and I don’t see how anything else would work as well. They make things funny with the abstract, child-like artwork that is hiding the down right deadly and sad things happening. A book that isn’t for everyone, but perhaps everyone should read.
This book is currently available, but I read via an online reader copy.