Everything Hurts: A Novel

Phil Camp has a problem. Not the fact that he wrote a parody of a self-help book (Where Can I Stow My Baggage) that the world took seriously and became an international bestseller. And not the fact that he wrote the book under a phony name, Marty Fleck, and the phony guy became a self-help guru. No, Phil's problem is he has been walking with a limp for nine months. He is in constant pain, yet there is nothing physically wrong with his body that would cause the pain. His mind, that's another story. A story which leads him to Dr. Samuel Curto. A real author who wrote a real self-help book (The Power of "Ow!") that cured thousands of people with mind-induced pain. So, what happens when the self-help fraud meets the genuine item? Does he get better? Can he get out of his own way to help himself?