This book is a textbook of Psychiatry disguised as a novel. Virgil has bad social phobia. He can't leave his apartment. He gets virtually involved with Cynthia, a bipolar with a huge sex drive. They have virtual sex via computer and fall in love. Cynthia who has a husband breaks it off. Virgil contemplates suicide but is rescued by Samantha, a psychiatric nurse practitioner. Samantha rehabilitates Virgil with medication and psychotherapy. The...