Escapology / The Gun That Won the West by Mike Shier

In Escapology / The Gun That Won the West, Mike Shier deftly weaves stories of famous Americans Harry Houdini and Sarah Winchester with his own memoirs of mental health concerns and strained familial relationships. Readers will be unable to escape the magic and mystery Shier crafts into these paired narratives—by turns funny and poignant—as he seeks his own way out of contemporary America’s self-fashioned and pharmacological straitjackets.