The Eden Express is an autobiographical account of Mark's years immediately after college, his thoughts, experiences and descent into and eventual emergence from mental illness.

It continues with an account of his journey in a VW Bug to the wilds of British Columbia to build a commune with his girlfriend and college friends.

The New York Times describes the book as:[citation needed] Mark Vonnegut’s depiction of his descent into, and eventual emergence from, mental illness.

As a recent college graduate, self-avowed hippie, and son of a counterculture hero, Vonnegut begins to experience increasingly delusional thinking, suicidal thoughts, and physical incapacity.

Sherill Howard Pociecha i Lech Janerka, Wrocław/Breslau 1992) and into German as Eden Express - Die Geschichte meines Wahnsinns (transl.