The narrator is funny, intelligent, perceptive, and (mostly) kind - but he doesn't understand the social rules most of us learn effortlessly. In a brilliant collection of episodes ranging from wildly funny to blackly despairing, he gives us an unflinching view from the perspective of the socially marginalized. With humor and compassion as well as anger and frustration, he shows us the profound loneliness of the disconnected, and reminds us that moments of real connection are gifts to be treasured.