The Shoe On The Roof Review

The shoe on the roof focuses heavily on psychological disorders and the brain itself.

The shoe on the roof review.

Will ferguson s the shoe on the roof is a tale for the times. Canada s will ferguson is known for two things. Will ferguson s novel the shoe on the roof is a truly original look at the relationship between son and father. Review by jennifer mccartney.

A while ago my father had deep brain stimulation surgery to help ease the symptoms of his parkinson s disease. Don t worry too much if you don t have a background in psychology going into this book. The shoe on the roof book cover. He s a humourist and he also wrote a fairly serious suspense thriller called 419 that won the scotiabank giller prize a few years back.

Can a person be driven sane through behaviour modification and tough love. Three of them wander. What happens is that surgeons put wires into your brain while you re awake. The main character thomas is a grad student trying to obtain his phd but is unable to chose a thesis.

Now the only work of his that i ve read aside from his new novel up for review here is 419 which i didn t care for too much. A review of will ferguson s the shoe on the roof. Is a sense of oneness with god nothing more than a reaction to stimulation in a specific part of the brain. Is madness a choice.

The novel exposes the unhealthy effects of his father s experimental ways. Thomas rosanoff s father is a psychiatrist who used his son as his own lab rat. There is quite a bit of information about the brain and psychology but it s written in really accessible language and doesn t feel a bit like an info dump. The shoe on the roof.

Marcia kaye is an award winning journalist specializing in health issues. Reviews back to book reviews. The good points of the shoe on the roof. His entire childhood was an experiment run by his father who is now a pioneer in the field.

Netgalley provided a copy of the epub in exchange for an honest review.