"Theft runs on parallel tracks as 30-year-old unsuccessful writer Cameron "steals" the stories of people he encounters at his job in the "Sally Ann" (i.e., Salvation Army) Treatment Center. He "takes" the identity of cokehead Darrel, a patient at the Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Center, when the addict commits suicide. He also takes to visiting Darrel's retarded older sister, June Greene, who has mosaic Down syndrome with complications of Becker's muscular dystrophy and has been taken care of for more than 16 years by the Sisters Who Gave Good Hope. "Darrel" develops a relationship with June and strikes a deal with the administrator, who lets him examine June's medical records, which he mines for story material. Cameron's resulting "Three River Stories" and incidental e-mails are set in a different font from that of the main narrative, which enhances this ironic, acerbic, and poignant novel's sense of shifting planes of reality. In short, terse sentences and equally compact chapters, Greer tells a compelling tale of identity theft"