Easy to Slip

Sam Kovner reads messages on walls and hears voices in the hall, and wonders: if you find yourself losing your mind, how do you get well?Winter, 1976, Columbia University. The dorms brim with academic pressure, recreational drugs, roiling testosterone, and repressed sexuality. At sea as a freshman, Sam retreats to the safety of his memories while he fails to control voices in his head that begin to proliferate with malevolence.As Sam searches for control in a new world of experiencesromantic entanglements, the pressure from his difficult family, and the intense energy of New York Cityhis inner turmoil spirals and the voices only grow louder.When his father delivers him to a psychiatric hospital, Sams journey takes a new turn. Over four years and across three hospitals, he confronts a cycle of torment and revelation.