This story would have been very good, were it not for the way that it is presented as being a view of schizophrenia. Whatever mental problems the main character has, they're not schizophrenia; I can tell that and I've never studied anything like mental illness. I really hope that readers understand that this is nothing like the real thing. 
 The story could have been so much more than it was. In the end, it fell short for me, because I couldn't suspend my disbelief far enough. 
 And since this was a story all about mental illness, why was Miles's obvious autism never touched on?