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Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
A Revolution of the Mind by MV Perry is a work of literary fiction that centers around its first-person narrator, Boo Harvey. Boo has grown up with the trappings of wealth in Chicago. We see dips in her mental health from early on, but when Boo eschews Notre Dame and heads to California to go to college, the free-fall of her mind's descent well and truly begins. Cruelty tumbles from her mouth and in the direction of her friends; she jolts between absolute lethargy where she cannot get out of bed and mania, where recklessness is in control of everything. Boo has exactly no control in this state. She meets Jude, who opens her up to fighting for the left so that she may someday have more than “my excuses: work, suicidal ideation, writing...” Whether or not she can fight the good fight outside while battling the war inside is anyone's guess.
There is no question that A Revolution of the Mind is literary fiction and that MV Perry is firmly set within the classical style of the literati. This is not a light read. It is not even a heavy read. This is a Megalodon in the kiddie pool like it's no big deal. The prose has the power to sing with lines such as, “The moral power of a scorned soul was profound, and the freedom not to be tied to the values of the crowd was amongst the purest and most beautiful human freedoms there were...” The political narrative-dialogue-ranting is on the verge of being exhaustive but is reined back with wit and nuggets of true wisdom. From the mental health perspective, I think many will see someone they love in Boo. I had a cousin who once painted a bathtub she couldn't get a stain out of with standard house paint in a hypomanic episode, so getting INTO the mind of Boo was enlightening. Overall, this is an incredible book if you are tickled by intelligent fiction. And if you aren't, you're not the right kind of crazy to sit with us anyway.
