Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir

"In Jean Guerrero’s gorgeous memoir, the KPBS reporter investigates her father’s life — and the stories he has spent his life telling — with a thoughtful eye. Guerrero’s father claims the U.S. government is testing out its mind control techniques on him as he battles an addiction to crack cocaine. While others say her father is mentally ill, Guerrero instead traces his journey across three continents to better understand him — and what has shaped his state of mind. In trying to illuminate her father’s story with reporting, cultural analysis and dives into neuroscience, Guerrero tells her own. The result is a moving, complicated look at the human psyche."