The Contortionist's Handbook

The Contortionist¹s Handbook is the story of John Dolan Vincent, and
abnormally gifted child with a proclivity for mathematics beyond his years.
However, he also bears a rare deformity‹polydactylism‹and 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 self-medication send him over and over to the emergency room. He
knows that to visit twice is to be institutionalized as a suicide risk. So,
following each trip to the hospital, he draws upon his skills as a petty
forger, and reinvents a new identity for himself.

The Contortionist¹s Handbook is about the lengths people will go to in order
to protect themselves from others and ultimately from themselves.