Geni Abby - The Body Farm Stories - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: The Body Farm Stories
Author(s): Geni Abby
Publisher: Counterpoint
Barcode: 9781640096264
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 5/7/2024
Category: Short Stories