Lucas Mann was only thirteen years old when his brother Josh charismatic and ambitious, funny and sadistic, violent and vulnerable died of a heroin overdose. Although his brief life is ultimately unknowable, Josh is both a presence and an absence in the author s life that will not remain unclaimed. As Josh s story is told in kaleidoscopic shards of memories assembled from interviews with his friends and family, as well as from the raw material of his journals, a revealing, startling portrait unfolds. At the same time, Mann pulls back to examine his own complicated feelings and motives for...