Dyad is Michael Brodsky's fourth novel. It is narrated by an urban lowlife known only as X—. He is hired by the dying tycoon Jamms, who wants X— to convince Jamms's estranged artist son Jim to come home, and let bygones be bygones. The "dyad" of the title refers to two people who are linked, what Beckett called a "pseudo-couple". X—, speaking about Jim, says: We were constructed to be polar opposites so that the story—our story—might be born.