Description
| Product ID: | 9781640096264 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Body Farm |
| Subtitle: | Stories |
| Authors: | Author: Abby Geni |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Short stories, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The body cannot tell any lies. From birth to death, and through all the transitions in between, the body stores our knowledge and history, our feelings and experiences. Our betrayals. These insightful and empathetic stories, from the critically acclaimed author of The Last Animal, shine new light on our physical vessels set against our physical world, two landscapes irretrievably connected and altered over time. An etymologist solves cold cases and upholds a sense of justice by studying the decay of corpses in a field and the insect life they develop. A caregiver obsesses over a stained-glass lampshade to deal with the elegiac losses of Alzheimer''s. A sister with webbed fingers highlights the often-universal belief that our siblings just might be creatures brought forth from the deep. The memory of a scent evokes the haunting legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic. These eleven stories display Abby Geni''s great capacity to take us into the lives and experiences of others to scrutinize the physical self: birth, childhood, transition, mental health, trauma, aging, illness, love, sex, and death. |
| Imprint Name: | Counterpoint |
| Publisher Name: | Counterpoint |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-05-07 |
