The Shoe On The Roof Review

Is madness a choice.

The shoe on the roof review.

He s a humourist and he also wrote a fairly serious suspense thriller called 419 that won the scotiabank giller prize a few years back. The shoe on the roof. The shoe on the roof focuses heavily on psychological disorders and the brain itself. Will ferguson s the shoe on the roof is a tale for the times.

Canada s will ferguson is known for two things. There is quite a bit of information about the brain and psychology but it s written in really accessible language and doesn t feel a bit like an info dump. A review of will ferguson s the shoe on the roof. His entire childhood was an experiment run by his father who is now a pioneer in the field.

The novel exposes the unhealthy effects of his father s experimental ways. A while ago my father had deep brain stimulation surgery to help ease the symptoms of his parkinson s disease. Marcia kaye is an award winning journalist specializing in health issues. Don t worry too much if you don t have a background in psychology going into this book.

Is a sense of oneness with god nothing more than a reaction to stimulation in a specific part of the brain. These are some of the questions posed by will ferguson in his. In the shoe on the roof will ferguson s latest novel there are would be christs aplenty too. Three of them wander.

Reviews back to book reviews. The shoe on the roof book cover. The good points of the shoe on the roof. Netgalley provided a copy of the epub in exchange for an honest review.

Now the only work of his that i ve read aside from his new novel up for review here is 419 which i didn t care for too much. The main character thomas is a grad student trying to obtain his phd but is unable to chose a thesis. Thomas rosanoff s father is a psychiatrist who used his son as his own lab rat. Will ferguson s novel the shoe on the roof is a truly original look at the relationship between son and father.

The shoe on the roof is a fast read and sometimes a fun one but left me feeling it could have been so much more.