The Hardest Part of Schizophrenia Is Spelling Schizophrenia: A Memoir

From a fearless comic known for tackling uncomfortable topics, a revealing and subversive memoir that explores Bowers' life from his difficult childhood in Georgia up to his rise in the LA comedy worldByron Bowers is often referred to as a Comics' Comic.A veteran stand-up comedian and actor, he's known for gripping material covering spirituality, race, socioeconomics, gender roles-and for delivering a fair chunk of it unrehearsed and in the moment.But though his life today may seem promising, it wasn't always that way.After all, as Byron sees it, the best stand-ups spin comedy from their own perceptions of reality. and what better source material to mine than one's own struggles?Growing up as an illegitimate child in conservative Georgia, Byron was accustomed to instability, passed from parent to parent before eventually being taken in by his grandmother.While experiencing heavy bullying from children his community, he bussed into a white school and instantly became a target of racism.