Once addicted to drugs, the behavioral neuroscientist uses her own history with illicit substances to present a unique understanding of their effects on the brain.
"I wanted something that sounded like those sorts of folktales that my grandfather and grandmother would tell me, and the African epics that I read, which are decidedly not western."
“Much of my own coming-of-age," he says, "wasn’t just a period of exploration of the books that came before me, but was really a kind of study of the institutions that were being systematically dismantled in front of me."
Bowering's friend Margaret Atwood has said, affectionately, that he hides his real self behind a goofy act, giving “a genial imitation of a man acting like a nincompoop”.
