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Quitting the Nairobi Trio

by Jim Knipfel

Published: 2001-07
Paperback : 304 pages

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With the same prickly, poignant humor that distinguished his "brave and astonishing" (Mirabella) debut, Jim Knipfel recounts his six month stay in a Minneapolis mental institution. Offering readers belly laughs and shades of Samuel Beckett, Jim Knipfel is a "born storyteller" (Thomas ...

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(With the same prickly, poignant humor that distinguished his "brave and astonishing" (Mirabella) debut, Jim Knipfel recounts his six month stay in a Minneapolis mental institution. Offering readers belly laughs and shades of Samuel Beckett, Jim Knipfel is a "born storyteller" (Thomas Pynchon) who brings a radical new voice to the psychological-memoirist ranks.

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"A story about a "sane" guy in an insane asylum"by Anna S. (see profile) 04/17/07

I really enjoyed this book, but no everyone in my club shared my perception. The account of a person's stay in a psych ward is very interesting and the author is a very good story teller. Who would have... (read more)

"A journalist writes about his experience in a hospital psychiatric ward"by Kristine T. (see profile) 12/26/06

Some members of our club enjoyed this book immensly and some did not enjoy it at all. While Jim Knipfel's account of his stay in a hospital psychiatric ward was disturbing and comedic at th... (read more)

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