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When a oncepromising young writer agrees to ghostwrite a famous physicists memoir his livelihood is already in jeopardy Plagued by debt hes grown distant from his wife and is haunted by an overwhelming sense of dread he describes as The Mist Then things get worse The physicist vanishes leaving everything in limbo including our narrators sanity

Among the most accurate and insightful depictions of depression Ive ever read Los Angeles Times

Brewers earnest description of psilocybin therapy turns a bravura comic novel into something deeper and stranger an account of unexpected hardwon joy Vogue

In an attempt rid himself of The Mist the young writer undergoes an experimental psychedelic treatment and finds his world completely transformed Joy suffuses every moment For the first time he understands himself in a larger universal context and feels his life shift refract and crack open to reveal his past and future alike

Moving swiftly from a chemical spill in West Virginia to Silicon Valley from a Brooklyn art studio to a highspeed train racing across the Italian countryside The Red Arrow wades into the shadowy depths of the human psyche only to emerge as if speeding through a milelong tunnel into a world that is so bright and wondrous it almost feels completely new