Joe Guppy, a Seattle author and psychotherapist, will be reading from his new memoir “My Fluorescent God” at Eagle Harbor Book Company at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16.

The book tells the story of Guppy’s young life, which derailed in 1979.

The 23-year-old was dealing with a bad breakup and existential angst, but it was a few stomach pills he took in Mexico that pushed him over the edge into paranoid psychosis and straight into the mental ward of Seattle’s Providence Hospital (or, as he perceived it, Hell).

In the ensuing six months, he battled his real-life demons, jumped out a second-story window and encountered God in a fluorescent light fixture.

In this raw, often wryly comic memoir, Guppy invites readers into his haunted, 23-year-old head. Recreated from journal entries and the notes of mental-health professionals, the story of the author’s struggle to rebuild his sanity is a gripping spiritual and psychological adventure.

You can learn more about the book and the author at www.facebook.com/MyFluorescentGod.

EHBC is located at 157 Winslow Way East. Visit www.eagleharborbooks.com for more information about this and other upcoming author visits.