“Keith Abbott may be called a near-master of the plain-style…..Mordecai of Monterey is a straightforward touching tale…The novel is often funny…always inventive and worth pursuing. Doris Grunbach

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“I was so struck by Mordecai’s melanoia I wished to immediately catch it. Aas it is symptomatic of our times that adventures and unpredictability have to be introduced as a disease. Andrei Codrescu, National Public Radio

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Mordecai of Monterey embodies the distinctly modern Zeitgeist…..Mordecai…clings to a fading vision of spiritual self fullfillment that once animated a whole generation. Jonathan Kirsch Los Angeles Times

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Abbott pulls together a memorable portrait of counter-culture life. Mordecai’s got …..melanoia, it works like paranoia, but in reverse. What’s charming about Mordecai’s melanoia is that ….his so-called disease is simply a love of mystery, a belief in resonate friendship and a quiet dis-satisfaction with anything less. This novel presents a more profound and disturbing portrait, a man whose disease is a blessing….a release from the real emotional diseases haunting his friends and his time. Thomas Simmons, San Jose Mercury.