Lithium for Medea is as much a tale of addictionto sex, drugs, and dysfunctional family chainsas it is one of mothers and daughters, their mutual rebellion and unconscious mimicry. Here is the story according to Rosethe daughter of a narcissistic, emotionally crippled mother and a father who shadowboxes with death in hospital corridorsas she slips deeply and dangerously into the lair of a cocaine-fed artist in the bohemian squalor of Venice. Lithium for Medea sears us with Roses breathless, fierce, visceral flightlike a drug that leaves ones perceptions forever altered.