The Shoe On The Roof Review

The shoe on the roof focuses heavily on psychological disorders and the brain itself.

The shoe on the roof review.

Will ferguson s the shoe on the roof is a tale for the times. Review by jennifer mccartney. Thomas rosanoff s father is a psychiatrist who used his son as his own lab rat. In the shoe on the roof will ferguson s latest novel there are would be christs aplenty too.

The main character thomas is a grad student trying to obtain his phd but is unable to chose a thesis. The shoe on the roof book cover. Three of them wander. Don t worry too much if you don t have a background in psychology going into this book.

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. A while ago my father had deep brain stimulation surgery to help ease the symptoms of his parkinson s disease. Will ferguson s novel the shoe on the roof is a truly original look at the relationship between son and father. These are some of the questions posed by will ferguson in his.

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. What happens is that surgeons put wires into your brain while you re awake. 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. Reviews back to book reviews.

Canada s will ferguson is known for two things. Netgalley provided a copy of the epub in exchange for an honest review. Can a person be driven sane through behaviour modification and tough love. The good points of the shoe on the roof.

The novel exposes the unhealthy effects of his father s experimental ways. Is madness a choice. The shoe on the roof. His entire childhood was an experiment run by his father who is now a pioneer in the field.

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.