If the Body Allows It : Stories Paperback / softback
by Megan Cummins
Part of the The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction series
Paperback / softback
Description
Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, If the Body Allows It is divided into six parts and framed by the story of Marie, a woman in her thirties living in Newark, New Jersey.
Suffering from a chronic autoimmune illness, she also struggles with guilt over the overdose and death of her father, whom she feels she betrayed at the end of his life.
The stories within the frame-about failed marriages, places of isolation and protection, teenage mistakes, and forging a life in the aftermath-are the stories the narrator writes after she meets and falls in love with a man whose grief mirrors her own.
If the Body Allows It explores illness and its aftermath, guilt and addiction, and the relationships the characters form after they've lost everyone else, including themselves. Introspective, devastating, and funny, If the Body Allows It grapples with the idea that life is always on the brink of never being the same again.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:270 pages
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2020
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- ISBN:9781496222831
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:270 pages
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781496222831
