The Psychotic Break Series by Duncan MacLeod (Books #0.5 – 2)
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Overview: Duncan Allan MacLeod was born in Oakland and raised in San Francisco, CA. He is fluent in five languages, sings early American hymns, and is the author of the Psychotic Break Series. He makes his home in Southern California with his husband and their dog Patsy.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics MM
Seventh Avenue South (The Psychotic Break #0.5)
Ethan Lloyd, a bright prep school student with perfect grades, shows great promise when he chooses to leave the remaining shreds of his family and move to New York City where he plans to go to college in the fall. Immersed in the world of the 1980’s “club kids”, he does his best to navigate the social world of the celebutante. The colorful characters that polka dot Ethan’s life are a new family, but not always a safe one. Mental illness, money, and low self-esteem gain the upper hand, forcing him to drop out of Columbia University and return home to San Francisco to face his demons.
7th Avenue South is a highly-demanded prequel to the 4-book Psychotic Break Series which documents Ethan’s struggles with drugs, psychosis and hospitalization. 7th Ave South lays the foundation and gives context to the circumstances that lead six months later to Ethan’s 5150 transfer to the mental hospital from jail.
5150: A Transfer (The Psychotic Break #1)
Set in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district in the 1980’s, 5150 depicts a failure in the rite of passage from adolescence to adulthood. When young, gay Ethan Lloyd awakens to tremors he is first convinced they are little earthquakes. They turn out to be a forewarning of a psychotic episode that lands him first in jail, and then transferred or "5150’ed" to the mental hospital. Told in the first person with an extremely unreliable narrator, the book drags the reader into the world of madness and mental hospitals, with only the occasional gasp for air in the agreed-upon common reality most of us share. Ethan’s struggle to regain his sanity is pockmarked with psychosis and cigarette smoke intertwined in a coffee-ringed world of hairspray, dyed black hair, hobos, and hospital gowns. Were it not for society’s waterlogged safety nets, he might never have returned to share his tale of survival.
Half (The Psychotic Break #2)
A halfway house is a lousy place to fall in love. Continuing right where “5150: A Transfer” left off, “Half” recounts the ongoing saga of Ethan Lloyd and his bid to break free of the mental health system while continuing the slow healing process.
Ethan befriends Michael G. Page, a complex character suffering from a much milder case of mental illness. Michael helps Ethan regain his sense of self and personal freedom that he lost in the hospital.
Half takes place in a very real location – Conard House, a Victorian Mansion in Pacific Heights converted into a halfway house for mental patients. The house, perched high atop the hill above Cow Hollow, provides an ironic contrast to the fate of the clients who live there. For many, this will be the only mansion they will ever call home.
There are setbacks. Ethan suffers from occasional relapses of paranoia, hallucinations and medical mismanagement. Despite these obstacles, he plans to escape to Mexico with his new crush, Chance.
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