A lawyer with an uncategorizable and untreatable malady struggles to stay afloat with the help of people who love him. I liked Ferris's THEN WE CAME TO AN END very much, and though this is a different and much darker book, it's similar in the way it brings a mundane work life into the novel, showing how we make our living can be both essential and sadly irrelevant to who we are.

The protagonist's condition — a compulsion to be moving that causes him to leave safe places — is strange when viewed as a medical condition, but understandable when seen as the human condition. (I volunteer with the homeless and see similar behavior. What makes the protagonist unusual is that he is wealthy and seems to have everything going for him.)

At times hopeful or profoundly sad, THE UNNAMED doesn't resolve itself in a wholly satisfying way, but it is beautiful always.

I'd place it above THE DIAGNOSIS by Alan Lightman and THE COMA by Alex Garland, which I've also read. Maybe something's wrong with me...