The Contortionists Handbook

The Contortionists Handbook is the story of John Dolan Vincent, an abnromally gifted child with a prclivity for mathematics beyond his years. However, he also bears a rare deformitypolydactylismand his genius is counterbalanced by a near absence of social skills and episodes of severe migraines.As an adult his migraines occur with alarming regularity, and his repeated attempts at selfmedication send him over and over to the emergency room. He knows that to visit twice is to risk being institutionalized as a suicide risk. So, following each trip to the hospital, he draws upon his skill as a petty forger, and reinvents a new identity for himself.The Contortionists Handbook is about the lengths people will go to in order to protect themselves from others and ultimately from themselves.