A dazzling, often hilarious collection of stories that make the familiar seem bizarre and the incredible completely normal. Readers will see the world through the prism of unfamiliar perspectives: a delusional playboy, a tree surgeon better attuned to the values of his "patients" than to other people, a mad professor, a former pizza-delivery boy convinced he's witnessed magic - all struggling to justify the choices they've made. These lives illustrate how we can fail to understand the simplest of truths and how often we are trapped by the peculiarities of the way we see the world.