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“Maybe between the two of us we can trick me into being honest with you.” A collage of notes written in a sixth-floor men’s room, The Sum of His Syndromes is the story of a slightly disturbed young man who has found himself at a personal and professional crossroads. There is a job he doesn’t want, a girl he does, and a friend who is writing a book. If it weren’t for the wise counsel of his therapist, the anomalous Dr. C, who knows what might have happened.

2008 Oregon Book Award Finalist

“Enigmatic…Addictive…With passages that are so well turned they can be called lyrical—and others that are laugh out loud funny.” – A.M. Homes

"Syndromes is funny; it's insightful; it's gonzo" --Willamette Week

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Ranging freely from the fractured character sketch to the political satire, from the study of strained relationships to office angst, the stories in My Desk and I take liberty with the form. Short on sentimentality, but not necessarily on sentiment, the characters in this collection—a girl in a coffee shop, an obsessed fan, a Little League pitcher—offer comic, thought-provoking takes on life as it is lived in the corners of a culture preoccupied with the hoopla of a brand-named now.

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K. B. Dixon’s work has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and journals. The recipient of an OAC Individual Artist Fellowship Award, he is the author of two novels, The Sum of His Syndromes and Andrew (A to Z), and the short story collection My Desk and I.

“How was my day? I’m trying not to remember.” A wry, unconventional character study, Andrew (A to Z) is a sort of mosaic that the reader assembles subconsciously. Focusing on the narrator’s family, friends, co-workers, and neighbors, it is the story of a quasi-neurotic malcontent on the edge of the edge of middle middle-age. An amateur photographer, the office satirist, an evening’s dinner guest, Andrew pastes together in alphabetical disorder a collage portrait of his baffled suburban life.

“A unique sort of pleasure… Intriguing …Andrew is a fully realized Everyman, juggling life, death and a hundred other little irritations. Clever, but never mocking or cruel”
--The Oregonian

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