Mordecai of Monterey Author:Keith Abbott From the same landscape that inspired Cannery Row comes Mordecai of Monterey, a comic novel about the late '60s and early '70s. The hero, Mordecai, discovers that he has been fidted with melanoia, the opposite of paranoia. Melanoia means that Mordecai actually trusts people and expects good things to happen, which they ofte... more »n do. When Mordecai hooks up with fast-talking Buck and the erotic adventuress Francine Fingers, he finds out just how far good luck can go.« less