[A] moving, beautifully written book about love and mental health and lifeBOB ODENKIRKFiercely intelligent, humane and necessaryNATHAN FILER, author of THE SHOCK OF THE FALL''At its heart a story about lovean astonishing new voice'' ALI MILLAR, author of THE LAST DAYSIm scared the bad people will hear me talking to you.I watch him take his notebook and a marker pen from his bag.As he zips the compartment back up I see the tip of our large, serrated kitchen knife, the one that went missing last night.Zach was nineteen when Tanya discovered him rerouting the wires of their landline, sure that the phone was bugged, that his friends were Mafia, that the helicopters swirling above were deployed by spies, that he couldnt trust anyoneher included.That moment upturned and unmoored everything.It would strand them both in a profound and terrifying isolation the way that perhaps only a psychotic breakor loving someone who is experiencing onecan.Zig-Zag Boy is a journey along