Hospital Always Wins

Issa Ibrahim''s memoir details in searing prose his development of severe mental illness leading to a horrific family tragedy, his acquittal by reason of insanity, and his subsequent commission to a mental hospital for nearly twenty years.

Raised in an idyllic creative environment, mom and dad cultivating his talent, Issa watches his family''s descent into chaos in the drug-crazed late 1980s. Foll...