A surprisingly easy to read but effectively profound exposition of the alienation experienced in modern culture. Evan Hansen's years of meds and therapy sessions have failed to unlock his self-defeating personality from his stifled cocoon of unworthiness until an unexpected confrontation with another social outcast leads to a complete misunderstanding and provokes alarming changes in Evan from previously unthinkable situations that force him to behave in entirely new ways. He frantically tries to navigate new expansive circumstances and begins to lose his comfortable anonymity and familiar obscurity. The dependable crutches on which he relied for so long no longer work and he has no other ways to cope...
