My brother's name

This book just broke my heart.
The depiction of paranoid schizophrenia in this book is very sad, and very scary, and pretty real. There is an overwhelming sense of futility throughout this story. What can you do when your son and brother has been taken over by mental illness, except love him? But love doesn't make things better either, so you either have to be sad for the rest of your life or go crazy yourself. John's parents do the former, his sister does the latter, and it's beautiful and heartbreaking.