“Five years ago, my brother had a drug-induced psychotic break. He went from being a happy and healthy 27-year-old…to someone who couldn’t tell what was real and what wasn’t.”

Zander Sherman (picture above, left) is a young freelance writer with a special interest in education issues. The Curiosity of School, his debut book, examines “the most controversial debates that swirl around the world about the topic of education today.” Zander has also examined other themes and situations — from reporting on a murder investigation to looking at trends in student housing.

But a highly personal, family situation has become the focus of his recent article. It’s described as “a harrowing story of brotherly love” and it reveals what happened after Zander’s brother, Joshua (picture above right, and below), disappeared in the years after he suffered a drug-induced psychotic break.

“The B.C. trip that saved my brother’s life” was published in the Vancouver Sun on September 26, 2015. It describes how Zander searched for, and eventually found, his brother Josh (“32 years old, 6’1”, 130 lbs., brown hair, blue eyes, homeless since July 2015”) in a province with more homeless people than any other in Canada.

We speak with Zander Sherman.

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