Character Witness

Character Witness is a memoir about a son's relationship with his mother, chronicling her struggle with mental illness, addiction, and poverty while exploring how the son's troubles as a young man began to mirror hers.

Jason Brown is a professor and director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon. He has published four books of short stories: A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed, Driving the Heart and Other Stories, Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work (an NPR summer reading pick), and Outermark. Brown has been a Stegner Fellow and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, The Best American Short Stories, and The Best American Essays and won a Pushcart Prize.
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