What do you get when you commit to a friendship with a person who is intelligent, delusional, grandiose, and terrified? Sarah Einstein’s memoir explores her commitment to Mot, a man she meets during the course of her work managing a homeless shelter in West Virginia. As her friendship with Mot is tested by his eccentricity and her own fears, her marriage is tested on a parallel track. She treats both commitments with honesty, compassion, and more than a little self-awareness, but the main focus is on the friendship. Navigating this new kind of love, balancing her own needs for safety with the need to accept Mot's versions of reality, Einstein comes at last to a personal-is-political definition of friendship that will resonate with anyone who has cared about a person suffering from mental illness.