Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year byThe New York Times,The Wall Street Journal, andThe Atlantic

Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.Wall Street Journal

Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosens haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. A story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion,The Best Mindsexplores the ways in which we understandand fail to understandmental illness.