Distortion

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"Dillon is a high-functioning but disturbed young man otherwise known as Dylan or Dhilan. The way he spells his name and his online identity depends on the circumstanes he finds himself in. None of his identities is imaginary. Although Dillon has worked very hard to escape to university, there's no getting away from all his complicated family problems, with its plentiful intangible guilt and all-too-tangible bodily fluids. Like many young carers, he has kept his domestic life a secret from his friends - and even from his long-suffering girlfriend, Ramona. His various lives have now become hardwired, leaving him stuck somewhere between love and resentment, fixating on the physical horror of his mother's sickness to drown out the emotional pain. But the appearance on campus of two strange men who seem to know everything about Dillon's different identities forces him to track down his shady, estranged father. And that's when trouble really sets in."--Cataloguer