From the New York Times bestselling author of The Monopolists, the story of Kevin Hall, an Olympic and America’s Cup sailor, and the form of bipolar disorder that makes him believe he is the star of an ongoing television show of his life. Meet Kevin Hall, brother, son, husband, father, and Olympic sailor. Kevin has an Ivy League degree, a winning smile, and throughout his adult life, he has been engaged in an ongoing battle with a person that doesn’t exist to anyone but him: The Director. Kevin suffers from what doctors are beginning to call Truman Show delusion, a form of bipolar disorder named for the 1998 movie The Truman Show, in which the main character realizes he is the star of a reality TV show. When the Director commands Kevin to do things, the results often lead to handcuffs, hospitalization, or both. Kevin has ripped TV cables out of walls, stripped naked in public, climbed trees shouting lines from Shakespeare, stood at the edges of buildings, and once he nearly drove a car into Boston Harbor. His girlfriend, now wife, was in the passenger seat. In the tradition of Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, journalist Mary Pilon’s The Kevin Show reveals the many-sided struggle--on the part of Kevin, his family, and the medical profession--to understand and treat a psychiatric disorder whose euphoric highs and creative ties to pop culture have become, for Kevin, inextricable from his experience of himself. Interweaving Kevin’s perspective--including excerpts from his journals and sketches--with police reports, medical records, and interviews with those who were present at key moments in his life, The Kevin Show is a bracing, suspenseful, and eye-opening view of the role that mental health plays in a seemingly ordinary life.