Patchwork Reality

For nine years, Pauline Hansen watched her devoted husband Curtis grow convinced that their family was secretly caught up in an elaborate "Game" run by wealthy onlookers, complete with rules about numbers, colors, and who he could speak to. What began as a quirk slowly took over their finances, their home, and even Curtis's relationship with his own children. This raw, true memoir follows Pauline's decade in the dark and her family's return to peace after Curtis is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

• A true story: for nine years she thought it was just her husband's quirk—until he stopped speaking to his own children.
• A wife's loyalty is tested to the breaking point when her husband becomes convinced their family is a pawn in a secret million-dollar 'Game.'
• An unflinching, hopeful look at how paranoid schizophrenia hid for years behind faith, dreams, and 'just being radical.'
• Endorsed by a professor of psychiatry as an 'inspiring tutorial' on how schizophrenia develops and how a family copes.

“My husband shook his head adamantly. "We can't just ignore The Game. It will never go away. We have to see it to the end."”

Perfect for an adult—especially a spouse, parent, or caregiver—touched by mental illness in a loved one who wants an honest, faith-tinged story of surviving and finding hope.