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The background story of this is interesting— three men, each believing they‘re Christ, are brought together in Ypsilanti State Hospital (early 1960s). However, this is fully a case study with more detail than I wanted/needed. Plus, some of the approaches taken then would be questionable today, something that the author (who ran the study) acknowledges in his afterword penned 20 years later.

Still curious to see the movie based on this.

For those of you interested in my current read, nyrb is having a flash sale (40% off) this weekend on this book and also some others of their titles that have been turned into movies. If you don‘t mind having a movie tie-in cover!

Some time ago, this cover‘s title caught my eye and I bought it. Ypsilanti MI is the next town over from Ann Arbor where we lived for many years. In fact my 3 kids were born in Ypsi.

Finally out of the TBR, because I found out it‘s been made into a movie with Richard Gere and Peter Dinklage. This book is a case study by the author about three of his mental hospital patients who each thought they were Christ, and he brought them together.