Now middle-aged, Joshua has overcome his inauspicious beginnings in Montreal's Jewish ghetto to become a celebrated television writer, yet he is an unhappy man. Incapacitated by a freak accident, anguished by the disappearance of his wife, Joshua is beleaguered by the press and tormented by the ghosts of his youth.

    A collection of Gibson's short stories explores the personalities of those considered "insane" by those--doctors, psychiatrists, family, friends--who consider themselves "normal," revealing the flashes of pure truth frequently masked by "insanity"