Publisher: Tortoise Books
“LeBrun writes with the peculiar velocity of Denis Johnson. This is a book rich with wild language and a big-hearted journey into human confusion.”
— Joshua Mohr, author of Model Citizen
“A gritty, rollicking, and heart-breaking memoir... I put it on the shelf with Bukowski, Fante, and Kerouac.”
— John Julius Reel, author of My Half Orange
“…a wayward, knife-edge adventure told in expressive detail... evocative of a real-life Alice in Wonderland.”
— Frankie Martinez, Independent Book Review
Delirium Vitae
In 2001, David was an aspiring writer at the end of a string of dead-end jobs. He travelled to Costa Rica to reconnect with an old friend and planned on living cheaply for a winter while finishing the book he thought would make his career. But once there, he was swept up in his friend’s self-destruction and ran out of money far sooner than expected by drinking every night and getting stoned every day. And maybe stealing the occasional pill.
What followed was an epic odyssey across Central America and Mexico, hitchhiking with random strangers and sleeping anywhere he could as his mental health deteriorated, and he tried to finish his book. Along the way, he met down-and-out street buskers, a narcissistic thief, a Bible-thumper with multiple personalities, ex-convicts in a Narcotics Anonymous shelter—but, more importantly, himself.