This was such an emotional read. Vulnerable, heavy and eye opening.

Parts of it will stick with me.

This story hit hard. I really appreciate the author's honesty in his retelling of what happened to his family. It may not be a story everyone can hear, but it has quite an impact for those who can get through it.

wow..
this was an extremely heavy read.
i can't imagine how hard this was for vince granata to write, sort through & re-live, but i really hope this memoir helped him in some way.
vince granata uses this memoir as a way to navigate through all the trauma, fear, & anger of his mother being murdered by his schizophrenic brother tim, but he does it in a way where he explores his own feelings & emotions, & goes in depth to try to salvage the good, pure & happy memories of tim & his mother. now, this does not mean this memoir is a walk in the park, it digs deep, at times it is very difficult to get through, but i think that's what makes it strong.
i have never read anything like this before.. i think vince was very transparent & very willing to be open about how he sorts through his thoughts. he goes through his fears of tim being violent, he cycles through projecting his anger, having memory loss from trauma, overthinking all the possible "what ifs" & outcomes if him & his siblings came home sooner, & his alcoholism to drown his grief. his story was very fluid, it flowed exceptionally, even though he was writing about his healing processes which were definitely not linear at all.
i appreciated being able to read about vince's trauma & fear and how they clouded a lot of his pure memories & the ways he tried to get back to them. i also appreciated the fact that he took the time to discuss the link between untreated serious mental illness & violence through the role of psychosis & how important it is to not stigmatize mental health. i really liked how he described the grieving processes his brother chris & his sister lizzie went through & how that changed their relationship to tim, because every single person in the granata family had their own way of grieving their own ways of communicating with each other after the fact, & i felt that was very important to include because not everyone grieves & experiences trauma in the same ways.
he goes into detail about anosognosia, which in brief is the lack of ability to perceive one's own realities of a condition. in this case it was tim's schizophenia that was being examined & you could just tell that vince really tried to learn as much as possible to try to get closer in understanding tim's illness even though it is difficult. i even learned from vince's explanation of the term.
overall, it's definitely a memoir that carries a lot of pain, grief, trauma, & healing, but it is very real, vince does not try to sugar coat anything, he really tries to search for answers within himself & takes his time to analyze everything about this traumatic experience.

This book will stay with me forever. As someone who suffers with a diagnosed severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI). Not schizophrenia, but bipolar and anorexia, I find reading books on the topic extremely engaging. Although engaging, it was at times traumatic, and required several breaks. I've recommended several pre-orders to people I know that will adore this book as much as I did. I learned a lot from this book.

As someone who works in mental health, I approached "Everything Is Fine" as a kind of case study. I was hoping to learn how mental illness affects a family - and to read a different perspective on schizophrenia.

While I did learn all of this, it's important for me to say "Everything Is Fine" is an incredibly important, heartbreaking, and honest memoir. I very much admire how Vince Granata told his family's story - and I wish the Granata Family nothing but peace in the coming years.

Thank you so much to NetGalley, the publisher, and to Vince Granata himself for the chance to read this. I will remember it for a very, very long time.

Wow! I don’t know what to say about this book! So good and interesting. I love the story dealing with a mental health issue. I hope everyone reads this.