“As a social worker, Zak Mucha did a job for seven years that most people wouldn't do for seven minutes. His clients were the people most of us cross the street to avoid. But there's no clinical snobbery or academic posturing here. Mucha's gift - as a writer and on the street - is his ability to cut through assumptions and pretensions - and in the cases of his clients, psychosis - and make a connection. Swimming to the Horizon is a brave, compassionate, often hilarious book about the true cost of helping others, and all that we get in return.” - Trey Bundy, journalist at The Center for Investigative Reporting “Imagine if ‘The Wire’ or ‘Justified’ had been about social workers, and you'll have an idea of how gripping, heartbreaking and funny this book is... but it's not fiction. Zak Mucha's combination of honesty, furious compassion and irresistible storytelling makes him one of the most important contemporary public intellectuals.” -Dogo Barry Graham, Zen monk and author of Kill Your Self: Life After Ego