"Compelling, charming and devastating."
- Kirkus Review

Scattershot is Lovelace’s poignant, humorous, and vivid account of the disease’s effects on his family, and his gripping exploits as he spent his life running from—and finally learning to embrace—the madness encoded on his genes.

Punctuated by a series of truly harrowing experiences, this devastating yet gentle portrait of the Lovelace family strips away the shame associated with bipolar disorder, and celebrates the profound creative gifts that come with it.

"David Lovelace’s observation of manic depression—his own, and his family’s—is a brilliant, comic, work of art. He’s the infinitely talented man who’s seen another country more clearly than anyone else, and has come back to tell us about it— its  wonders, and its startling familiarity. 
Read this book."

— William Monahan, Academy Award winning screenwriter of
The Departed and author of The Lighthouse