This fascinating and remarkable two-part nonfiction book by the husband-and-wife journalism team of Anna Jonas Fortenberry and Ken H. Fortenberry is heartbreaking and eye-opening as it examines mental illness from two angles.
The first part of this book – I Remember Andy – is deeply personal and was written by Anna about her brother, Andy, and the struggles her family faced for nearly a half-century as he fought schizophrenia and the voice-demons inside himself.
In the second part – Accomplice to Murder – Ken shares shocking stories of murder, sexual abuse, suicide and what he believes to be criminal neglect that led to the deaths of patients and the murders of innocent people in the South Carolina Department of Mental Health