Dysfunctional is the curious title of a gritty and revealing autobiography written figurative minutes before the passing on to ancestry of a Kansas City treasure, master saxophonist Ahmad Alaadeen.

Think your life is drama-free? Think again. Sometimes, you might be unwittingly setting the stage for chaos and dysfunction to enter your world, like a bad reality TV show you didn't sign up for.

A bent or dysfunctional state typifies awkwardness, deviation from norm, unexplainable circumstance or mockery of logic; it is a situation where things are not happening in tandem with expectation or ...