Well-known driven radio story-teller Mike Feder describes his apprenticeship into the trade of compulsive talker from being forced into telling his agoraphobic, mad mother stories of the world outside her closed blinds. His rediculous subsequent jobs, his failed marriage, his string of psychiatrists and the misery of his reluctant fatherhood all contribute to his book's uneasy balancing act between hilariousness and deep seriousness, conventionality and strangeness. Deeply funny and breathtakingly dark, it somehow reassures the reader that God loves a challenge.